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Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-404
Scope and Contents
This collection contains late 18th century and 19th century documents related to areas in and around the Lower Cape Fear region of Southeast North Carolina, including parts of South Carolina. Material includes agreements, indentures, land deeds, bills of sale, and land surveys, the bulk of which focus on Brunswick County and Duplin County and connect to the Bellamy and Hill families.Early 20th century photographs of the Historic Kenan House in Wilmington, North Carolina and...
Dates:
1780-1941
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-028
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of a family album and other photographs donated by a local Wilmingtonian, Robert E. Tapp, who relocated to Wilmington, NC in approximately 1904 from Somerset, England.
Dates:
1870-1979, Undated
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-353
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Ronald G. Phelps's personal documents, yearbooks, CDs, VHS tapes, photos, copies of published items, magazines, and newspaper clippings, largely related to Wilmington and the surrounding area's history from 1929 to 2018. Ron Phelps was active in the Wilmington community and considered a local amateur historian. A large portion of the collection focuses on New Hanover High School during Phelps's attendence and the various reunion events following his graduation in...
Dates:
1929-2018
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-180
Abstract
St. Andrews-Covenant Presbyterian Church is located in Wilmington, North Carolina. The church was formed by the merging of two congregations in 1944, St. Andrews Presbyterian and The Church of the Covenant. This collection includes histocial and financial data on the church, its leaders, members and organizations.
Dates:
1858-2009
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-169
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the archival records of St. James Episcopal Church in Wilmington, North Carolina. Records span the founding of the church in the early 1700s through its modern era in the 21st century. Content represented includes the historical records of the church, day-to-day operations of the vestry, membership registers, clergy papers and correspondence, church events and celebrations, committee and service work, publications, and material related to the national Episcopal...
Dates:
1721-2017
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-253
Abstract
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was founded in Wilmington, North Carolina by Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, bishop of the diocese of North Carolina in 1858. This collection contains documents, ephemera, minutes, pamphlets, photographs, publications and record books pertaining to the history and operations of the church.
Dates:
1858-1997
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-114
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a store ledger from Wilmington, North Carolina that is believed to have been in the Kittrell family since the late 1700s. The ledger indicates that a second store in "Fayette" was under the same ownership, with cash and debit accounts reflected in the ledger. Also listed are several city resident names that traded with the store at that time and are cleary noted, as well as a selection of poems or songs in the front.Loose articles titled "The News' Night...
Dates:
Other: 1788-1790, 1897
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-202
Scope and Contents
This collection contains papers, cassette tapes, VHS tapes, photographs, and slides related to the operations of Tapestry Theatre Company, primarily dating from the 1980s-1990s.
Dates:
Other: Undetermined
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-013
Scope and Contents
These papers are photocopied typescripts of New Hanover County, NC Deed Book and Will Book records and private letters, copied by Elizabeth McKoy of Wilmington, NC. The deed abstracts are occasionally accompanied by sketches of the area described in the deed. Some of this research material was in Elizabeth McKoy’s book, Early New Hanover County Records, published in 1973.These deeds describe land that eventually evolved into the Hermitage and Castle Haynes...
Dates:
1734-1967 (photocopies)
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-110
Scope and Contents
The Hawk's Eye was a regular feature article in the Star News written by Carlton Rhodes, a student at Wilmington College. The article was subtitled "News of Wilmington College," and chronicled all the important events and people associated with the college at that time.
Dates:
circa late 1940s-1950s
