Fort Huger

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Shells have been found in amazing quantities along this area of the river. The Indians who lived beside the saltwater stretches of river did not have tuckahoe and other freshwater plants to sustain them ...

Washington's Southern Tour

Near here stood Mulberry Grove, plantation home of General Nathanael Greene and Catherine Littlefield Greene. President George Washington twice visited the widowed Mrs. Greene at Mulberry Grove during the Southern tour of 1791. Traveling downriver from

Purrysburg, South Carolina to ...

13th Iowa Infantry

Hare's Brigade - McClernand's Division

U.S.

13th Iowa Infantry,

Hare's (1st) Brig., McClernand's (1st) Div.,

Army of the Tennessee.

At about 4.30 p.m. April 6, 1862, this regiment was engaged here, repelling a cavalry charge. It moved to left rear 400 yards where it was ...

Liberty Tree Memorial

Planted in honor of those who lost

their lives in the tragic events on

September 11, 2001

The American Liberty elm was named after "The Liberty Tree": Our Country's first Symbol of Freedom. On the morning of August 14, 1765, ...

Fort Jefferson Site / Indian Massacre

(North Side):Fort Jefferson Site

Built in 1780 by George Rogers Clark as part of impressive plan of settlement, conceived by Gov. Patrick Henry of Virginia, later pursued by and named for Gov. Thomas Jefferson. The fort was to protect US claim ...

Woodrow Wilson

President of the United States, 1913-1921. His home, 1874-1882, was the Presbyterian manse, which stood one block E.

Marker is at the intersection of South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) and Cottage Lane, on the right when traveling north on South 3rd ...

Catherine Kennedy Home

For the elderly. Grew from Ladies Benevolent Society, founded, 1845. First home, 1879, stood four blocks east.

Marker is on South 3rd Street (U.S. 74) 0.1 miles south of Orange Street, on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Louis Toomer Moore

1885-1961

Historian, preservationist, journalist, photographer. Director, Chamber of Commerce. A founder of Lower Cape Fear Historical Society. Chairman, New Hanover County Historical Commission. Member of area's pioneer family. His pictures & records in County Library.

Erected by The Lower Cape Fear Historical ...

Welcome to Fort Boykin Historic Park

Captain John Smith’s Adventures on the James

Fort Boykin was named after Francis Marshall Boykin who was a Virginia state senator, general in the state militia and owner of the property on which the fort was built. The topography at Fort ...

Jamaica Estates - A Residential Park

IN 1907, real estate developers Ernestus Guilick and Felix Isman purchased 500 acres of land north of the Colonial Village of Jamaica, here they established the Jamaica Estates Corporation. Their purpose was to erect an affluent resort with an English ...