History
of
New Hanover &
Pender Counties, NC
New!
91 Page Illustrated
Booklet
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Early days in New
Hanover and Pender Counties in southeastern North Carolina, are
recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in
this new 91-page spiral-bound
booklet, comprised of excerpts from several vintage books. These
source materials include John Hill Wheeler's Historical Sketches
of North Carolina (1851); Sketches of Prominent Living North
Carolinians by Jerome Dowd (1888), North Carolina, A Guide
to the Old North State (1939), a product of the WPA; A
New Geography of North Carolina (1954-65).
The
tri-color front cover is printed on 80# card stock and has been
protected with a vinyl sheet. The text is printed single-sided on
60# opaque paper, with the print enlarged to fit the 8.5" x
11" paper and improve readability.
Some of the places
mentioned in the booklet include:
NEW HANOVER - Wilmington (County Seat), Cape Fear, Castle Hayne,
Fort Fisher Air Force Station. PENDER -Burgaw (County Seat), Atkinson,
Canetuck, St. Helena, Hempstead, Moores Creek National Battle Site,
Penderlea, Rocky Point, Bannerman's Bridge, Six Forks, Maple Hill,
Scott's Hill, Currie, Long Creek, Watha, and Willard.
Among the many subjects
included are: Physical features,
such as the Atlantic coast, Cape Fear River and the Northeast River;
Pre-Revolutionary resistance to tyrany; Incident at Moore's Creek
Bridge; Bios of early notables: the Ashe family (extensive), Cornelius
Harnett, William Hooper (extensive), Archibald McLaine, Timothy
Bloodworth, Edward Jones, Johnson Blakely, Joshua Granger Wright,
Owen Holmes, and Edward B. Dudley; Members of the General Assembly
from New Hanover County before 1851; Periods of Boom and Bust; War
periods -- Civil, Revolutionary and WWII; Brief notes on -- Hugh
MacRae, George Davis, Benjamin Smith, Edwin Alderman, Ann Whistler,
Rev. Thomas Price, Admiral Edwin Anderson, General William Loring,
Admiral John Winslow, William McNeill, Hinton James, William McRee,
General Robert Howe, Alfred Moore, Johnson Hooper, General Hugh
Waddell, General James Moore, Pres. Woodrow Wilson, Johnston Blakeley,
Judah Benjamin, James Cardinal Gibbons, Edward Bishop Dudley, Charles
Jones Soong, Thomas Godfred, Capt. John Newland Maffitt, Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, Bishop Thomas Atkinson, General W.H.C. Whiting, Joseph
Gardner Swift, Henry Bacon, Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, Gov. Edward Dudley,
Harold Huntington, Edward Moseley, and the Swann, James, Lillington,
Meredith, and Bloodworth families; Sea Port history; Agriculture
-- blueberries, flowers, etc.; Early churches and schools; the first
Little Theatre in America, man-eating plants, the pirate Steed Bonnett
and (and of course, the required rumors of buried treasure), a justifiable
expenditure for whiskey, and other curious bits of history and trivia.
The Dowd excerpts
are biographies of Alfred Moore Waddell, Daniel L. Russell, Charles
Manly Stedman, T.B. Kingsbury, Julius A. Bonitz, R.R. Bridgers,
Rev. T.H. Pritchard, and Rev. F.W.E. Peschau. The WPA section offers
a nostalgic glimpse of the area from a 1939 vantage point, offering
many historical notes and sightseeing possibilities. It has a separate
section on Wilmington with a map and 25 points of interest.
Our
North Carolina booklets are a good resource for learning about the
history, geography and social climate of places where you or your
ancestors have lived or for places you plan to visit.
Wouldn't this
make a unique gift?
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