Topics Related to New Hanover County

Governor, 1836-41, the first in N.C. elected by popular vote; first president of Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. His home stands 2 blocks W.

Merchant, planter, and colonial official. Built this house, 1770-1771. His "Hermitage" estate was eight miles north.

Built by Confederacy. Its fall on Jan. 15, 1865, closed Wilmington, last important southern port for blockade running.

Anna McNeill Whistler, the mother of James Whistler, artist, was born in a house which stood one block east.

Built 1839, near site of older church, begun about 1751. Graves of Cornelius Harnett and Thomas Godfrey.

Stood two blocks west. Here a stamp master, William Houston, was forced to resign, 1765, and safety committees met in 1775.

Revolutionary statesman. Prominent in resistance to British rule and the creation of independent N.C. Home was 1/4 mi. N.