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The Cotton Exchange of Wilmington, North Carolina, is a shopping complex consisting of over eight historical buildings dating back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is so named due to the inclusion of the Old James Sprunt Cotton Exchange building; a business that claimed to be the largest exporter of cotton on the east coast until ...
Peter Churchill was a runaway prisoner of the American Civil War.He tells that "26 Reg. U.S. Col. Troops were encamped on Nigger head road – about the boundary of the City of Wilmington N.C.", and that they remained there from the time that he got to Wilmington in July 1864 to the end of the war, in May 1865.
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After the violence, Wilmington's population went from majority Black to majority white nearly overnight, and 1898 remains the only known violent overthrow of a local government in American history ...
Outland, Robert B. "Slavery, work, and the geography of the North Carolina naval stores industry, 1835-1860." Journal of Southern History 62.1 (1996): 27–56. online; Phifer, Edward W. "Slavery in Microcosm: Burke County, North Carolina." Journal of Southern History 28.2 (1962): 137–165. online
The district encompasses 337 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Wilmington. The district developed as Wilmington's first planned streetcar suburb between about 1906 and 1941 and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Classical Revival, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. [2]
This list of African American Historic Places in North Carolina is based on a book by the National Park Service, The Preservation Press, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. [1] Other listings are also online. [2]
Before its demolition in January, the building at 208 Market St. in downtown Wilmington had seen its share of theaters, nightclubs and live music. By 1990, it was nearing the end of its theater stage.