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Negro Head Road ran from Point Peter in New Hanover County to Duplin County, opposite of Wilmington, North Carolina. After the Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia, a similar slave revolt was building in Wilmington. A slave named Dave, who belonged to Sheriff Thomas K. Morrisey, was planning to march to Wilmington with a group of conspirators ...
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 ...
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [6] was a municipal-level coup d'état and a massacre that was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [7]
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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 ...
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]
Black Wilmington and the North Carolina Way: Portrait of a Community in the Era of Civil Rights Protest. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. ISBN 978-0-7618-1682-9. Alan D. Watson (2003). Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-8214-6. Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "North Carolina: Wilmington".
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]