Block 65, 1883-1917, undated

Contains materials pertaining to real estate transactions of Wilmington’s Block 65, the parameters being S. Seventh Street, Queen Street, S. Eighth Street, and Wooster Street. These documents include envelopes, plat drawings, single sheets of notes, correspondence, mortgage certificates, Mechanics' Home Association documents, newspaper clippings, and indenture documents. Names of specific people mentioned in these records include Myers, Margaret E. Bridgers, Robert Bridgers, C. E. Gordon, Sedgwick Springs, Hanes Craig, J. D. Sutherland, Enoch Winfield, Junius Davis, James D. McRae, Martha C. McRae, Henry Green, Assoe, W. G. McRae, Dosier, J. D. Southerland, Robert Dosher, Gilbert Whitefield, Anna Harvey, Mary E. Farrow, John Flowers, Edwin Barnes, Joseph Ward, Barnes, Jacob Hartman, E. P. Wyckoff, W. R. K. Slocoumb, J. Neil, Mary Neil, and John H. Hanby. Other entities mentioned in these records include Gordon Pants Co. This list is not conclusive, as many records are incomplete or illegible. Also included in these records discussion of Brunswick County deeds and a map of Wilmington's Blocks 50, 51, 52, 64, 65, and 66, including names of inhabitants/owners of each lot. Specific dates mentioned in these records include 1883, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1894, 1895, 1898, 1905, 1906, 1905, 1913, 1916, and 1917, although the bulk of the materials are undated and likely range from the 1870s to 1920.