Greenfield Lake (Wilmington, N.C.)

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 10 of Wilmington was charted September 13, 1919 by fifteen World War I veterans in accordance with US 41 Stat. 284. This collection contains three scrapbooks and several folders of ephemera pertaining to veterans and active military personnel from southeast North Carolina between 1942-1963. Items included in the scrapbooks are enlistment notices, obituaries, memorial lists, achievements attained, prisoner of war lists (POWs) and other patriotic articles...

Scope and Contents Contains an essay written by Carl Rehder detailing the history of Greenfield Park. According to Rehder, Howard-Wells Amusement Company purchased the land in 1918. After a small county fair and other amusements took place there, the people of Wilmington wanted the city to purchase the land to turn it into a park. However, a consensus could not be made for how much the park should be sold for; so the owner, "Mr. Mitchell," leased it in 1924 to become an amusement park for Black people. People...

Scope and Contents This unpublished political statement by James E.L. Wade in May, 1967 to the New Hanover County League of Women Voters covers a wide spectrum of programs he was involved with on both a local level and as a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina. Mr. Wade outlines his vision for the future of a greater Wilmington, covering improvements in all major areas from roads to parks and waterfront re-development, a convention center, preservation, recreation, city drainage, a bridge over the...