Abbott, Joe, 10
Adkins, E. H., 274
Airlie, 215–48
Airlie Gardens, 179, 214, 215–18
Airlie Oak, 217
Alaska, 252
Albemarle, 145
Albemarle Sound, 58
Alderman, Edwin A., 212
Alexander Sprunt & Son, 211
Algonquin Indians, 139
Alice G. Hoffman Nature Trail, 98
All Saints Chapel, 122
Alston-Charlotte House, 122
Alston, Joseph, 287–88
Alston, Theodosia Burr, 267, 287–89
Alton F. Lennon Federal Building, 176, 195
American Medical Association, 307
Amos and Andrew, 179
Anderson, Edwin Alexander, 211
Anderson, Joseph Reid, 262
Anderson, Marian, 209
Angola Bay Game Land, 157, 167
Anne Greene Lane House, 122
Ann Street Methodist Church, 54, 64
Apothecary Shop/Doctor’s Office, 56
Appomattox, Virginia, 240
Arizona, 250
Armistead, Lewis Addison, 121
Armstrong, Louis, 224
Aronson, Stuart, 143
Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1, 331
Asbury, Francis, 262
Ashe, John, 270
Astor, John Jacob, 208
Atlanta, Georgia, 240
Atlantic, 3, 14–16, 34, 35, 48, 50–51
Atlantic Academy, 50
Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, 80
Atlantic Beach, 76, 77, 89–96, 99, 101
Atlantic Beach Hotel, 96
Atlantic City, New Jersey, 101, 230, 283
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, 138, 193, 203, 216
Atlantic Company, 123
Atlantic Trust and Banking Company Building, 210
Attmore-Oliver House, 123
Attmore-Oliver Museum, 104, 123
Attmore-Wadsworth House, 123
Aunt Nora, 169–70
Austin, Junius, 10
Ayllon, Luis Vazquez de, 282–83
Azores, 21
Babies Hospital, 226
Back Bay, 53
Back Sound, 2, 16, 27, 34, 36, 39, 40, 41
Bacon, Francis, 203
Bacon, Henry, Jr., 183, 202, 203, 205–16
Bald Head Creek, 282
Bald Head Island, 266, 267, 269, 279–91, 293
Bald Head Island, Ltd., 279
Bald Head Lighthouse, 267, 269, 280–82
Bald Headed Men of America Club, 87
Bald Headed Men’s Convention, 87–88
Balestier, Carolina, 206
Ballou, Bill, 86
Baltimore, Maryland, 206
Bank of the Arts, 113
Banks Channel, 218, 219, 221, 226
Barbados, 285
Barden, Hap, 26–27
Barden Inlet, 2, 16, 19, 20, 22, 25, 27, 33
Barnholm, Denmark, 235
Barrow, John W., 200
Barry, John D., 183
Barrymore, Maurice, 208
Bartram’s Lake, 329
Basic Instinct, 179
Bath, 108
Batterial, 326
Battery Island, 269
Battle Acre, 238
Battlefield Trail, 175
Battle of Elizabethtown, 330
Battle of Jumpin’ Run, 226–27
Battle of Lexington, 158, 261, 314
Battle of Leyte Gulf, 251
Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, 172–75, 302
Battle of New Bern, 105, 126–27
Battle Rial, 326
Battleship Memorial Museum, 252
Battleship North Carolina Memorial, 246, 247–53
Bayonne, New Jersey, 251
B. Cameron Langston Bridge, 76, 102–3
Beacon Island, 7
Bear Creek, 151
Bear Island, 150–53
Beast of Bladenboro, 317, 332–33
Beaufort: description of, 55–75; historic structures of, 54–57, 61-66, 68, 72–75; history of, 57–59; map of, 54
Beaufort Historical Association, 56, 59
Beaufort Inlet, 23, 25, 58, 92, 103
Beauregard, 235
Beck, Vester, 313
Beery, Benjamin, 183
Belanger. J. J., 198
Bellamy, Ellen Douglas, 189
Bellamy, John D., Jr., 182
Bellamy Mansion, 176, 177, 188–90, 199
Bellamy Mansion, Inc., 189
Bellamy Mansion of History and Design Arts, 190
Bell Building, 130
Bell’s Island, 30
Bendigo, 299
Benjamin Ellis House, 104, 111
Benjamin, Judah, 211
Benjamin Smith House, 104, 114
Bennett College, 335
Ben Riles Graveyard, 31
Bernard, Simon, 90
Bern-on-the-Neuse, 107
Betsy’s Wedding, 179
Beveridge, John T., 63
Bicentennial Park (New Bern), 133
Bicentennial Park (Swansboro), 145
Big Cat, The, 332
Big Davis Canal, 296
Big Lake, 264–65
Bijou Theatre, 211
Billy Bathgate, 179
Blackbeard, 73–74, 143, 151, 159, 163, 284, 285
Blackbeard’s Revenge, 143
Bladen County Courthouse, 330
Bladen Lakes State Forest, 316, 317, 327–28
Blair House, 259
Blakely, Johnston, 211
Blockade Runner Museum, 186
Blockade Runner Resort Hotel, 221
Blount, John Gray, 11–12
Blue Velvet, 179
Bluff Island, 280
Bodie Island Lighthouse, 18, 289
Bogue, 148
Bogue Banks, 89–103
Bogue Inlet, 25, 103, 148, 158
Bogue, Joseph, 97
Bogue Sound, 76, 79, 88, 89, 92, 95, 100, 102, 134, 143
Boiling Springs Lakes, 246, 247, 264–65, 266
Bolivia, 271
Bolton, 324
Bombeck, Erma, 88
Bonhomme Richard, 22
Bonnet, Stede, 159, 163, 267, 273, 284–86
Borneo, 179
Boston Tea Party, 261
Bouncing Log Spring, 265
Boyd Hotel, 284
Boyd, James, 259
Boyd, Thomas Franklin, 284
Bradham, Caleb D., 105, 111–12, 132
Bradley Creek, 224
“Brad’s Drink,” 112
Bragg, Braxton, 227
Bragg, Hallis, 8
Brain Surgeon, 152
Branch, Lawrence O., 126
Breakers, The, 233
Brice, David A., 279
Bridgers, Elizabeth Eagles Haywood, 202–3
Bridgers, Rufus, 203
Bridgetown, Barbados, 285
Brinson House, 132
Bristol, England, 247
Britt’s Donuts, 230
Brock Mill Pond, 136–37
Brooklyn Navy Yard, 249
Brown, Thomas, 198
Brunswick County, 170, 235, 247, 253, 254–65, 267–305, 307–8, 324–26
Brunswick County Airport, 293
Brunswick County Courthouse (former), 266, 276
Brunswick Nuclear Plant, 265
Brunswick Pond, 263–64
Brunswick Town, 58, 115, 172, 201, 229, 247, 260–64
Brunswick Town Nature Trail, 263–64
Brunswick Town State Historic Site, 246, 247, 260, 262–64
Brunswick Town State Historic Site Visitor Center, 263
Bryan, John Heritage, 114
Bryan Jones House, 122
Bryan, William Jennings, 196, 209
Buffalo Bill, 209
Bunnell, Rufus, 188
Burgwin, John, 199
Burgwin-Wright House, 176, 177, 199–200, 201
Burnside, Ambrose, 68, 90, 91, 95, 126, 132
Burns, Otway, 23, 37, 65, 145–46
Burnsville, 37
Burnt Mill Creek, 179
Burr, Aaron, 287
Burrington, George, 185
Burris, B. M., 247
Butt, Archibald, 196
Button Company, 123
Buzzard’s Creek, 242
Cain, H. L., 204
Calabash, 292, 293, 312, 313–14
Calabash River, 313
Calhoun, John C., 127
Calloway, Cab, 224
Camp Davis, 157, 160, 165–66, 167
Camp Glenn, 79
Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, 83, 134, 135, 153–54, 155, 156
Cape Canaveral, Florida, 160
Cape Carteret, 101, 134, 135, 143
Cape Fear, 267, 280, 283, 284, 285, 289, 290–91
Cape Fear Club, 210
Cape Fear Lighthouse, 289
Cape Fear Memorial Bridge, 194
Cape Fear Museum, 176, 177, 184–86
Cape Fear Pilots Association, 272
Cape Fear River: at Bald Head Island, 281, 282, 285, 289; at Belville, 255; at Brunswick Town, 201, 261; at Carvers, 326; at Oak Island, 293, 300; at Orton, 257; at Pleasure Island, 228, 230, 235, 238; at Rocky Point, 171; at Town Creek, 256; at Wilmington, 176, 185, 194, 200; description of, 253–54; northeast portion of, 156, 253; northwest portion of, 253
Cape Fear River Ferry, 317, 326
Cape Hatteras, 254
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, 17, 18, 19, 289
Cape Hatteras National Seashore, 27
Cape Hatteras (research vessel), 84
Cape Henry, Virginia, 287
Capel House, 297
Cape Lookout (the cape), 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 82, 89
Cape Lookout Bight, 20, 21, 23–24, 27, 44
Cape Lookout Development Company, 24
Cape Lookout (former village), 20, 31
Cape Lookout Lighthouse, 2, 3, 1720, 22, 27, 40, 289
Cape Lookout National Seashore, 333, 40, 42
Cape Lookout National Seashore Visitor Center, 16, 40
Capps, John, 87
Captain Bill’s Restaurant, 85
Captain Charlie’s Complex, 289–90
Captain Elijah Willis House, 132
Captain J. N. Maffitt, 194
Captain Thomas, 285
Capt. Winner, 231
Carolco Pictures, 179
Carolco Studios, 177–79
Carolina bays, 138, 139, 140, 166, 321–22, 323, 330
Carolina Beach, 89, 186, 214, 215, 228–32, 236, 242
Carolina Beach Boardwalk, 215, 230
Carolina Beach Fishing Pier, 232
Carolina Beach Inlet, 232
Carolina Beach State Park, 215, 228–30
Carolina Beach Yacht Basin, 232
Carolina City, 79–80
Carolina Exploration Company, 163
Carolina Power and Light Company, 267
Carolina Yacht Club, 221
Carrere and Hastings, 190
Carrot Island, 55, 56, 59, 69–71, 72; wild horses of, 55, 56, 71
Carruthers-Forbes House, 104, 121
Carteret County: Cape Lookout portion of, 2–33; Beaufort portion of, 57–75; Bogue Banks portion of, 89–103; Down East portion of, 34–55; Morehead City portion of, 77–89; White Oak River portion of, 142–43
Carteret County Courthouse, 54, 55
Carteret County Courthouse of 1786, 56
Carteret County Historical Society, 79
Carteret County Jail (former), 57
Carteret County Museum of History, 77, 78, 79
Carteret County Parks and Recreation Department, 39
Cart Island, 69
Carvers, 316
Casino, The, 221
Cassatt, Mary, 198
Caswell Beach, 292, 293, 299–302
Caswell, Richard, 116, 117, 173, 273, 302
Catfish Lake, 134, 135, 140–41
Cedar Grove Cemetery, 130
Cedar Island, 2, 3, 16, 34, 35, 45, 48, 51–53
Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge, 35, 51
Cedar Island-Ocracoke Ferry, 2, 16, 35
Cedar Point Tideland Trail, 139, 143
Centenary United Methodist Church, 128
Central School, 130
Chadwick, Mary, 63
Chadwick, Mary Frances, 18
Chadwick, Robert, 63
Challenger, 68
Channing, Edward, 174
Chapel Hill, 191
Charles V, 283
Charles Slover House, 104, 132
Charleston, 58, 62, 82, 109, 158, 178, 285, 286
Charles Towne, 255
Charlie, the alligator, 253
Chase, H. M., 219
Chatham County, 253
Chautauqua, New York, 108
Chermont, 105
Cherry, Gregg, 117
Chester B’nai Sholom Synagogue, 104, 128
Chiang Kai-shek, Mrs., 63
Chicago, Illinois, 179
China, 63
Christ Episcopal Church, 104, 105, 112–13, 122, 131
Church of Christian Science, 211
City Hall (Wilmington), 208
City Pier, 269
Civil War: at Bald Head Island, 279, 282; at Beaufort, 59, 68, 70, 72, 74; at Bogue Banks, 90–91, 94, 95–96; at Cape Lookout, 18, 23; at Carolina Beach, 229; at Catfish Lake, 141; at Fort Anderson, 260, 262; at Fort Fisher, 182, 186, 202, 229, 237–40, 243; at Hampstead, 168; at Harkers Island, 41; at Morehead City 81; at New Bern, 105, 121, 126–27, 131–32; at Oak Island, 294, 299; at Portsmouth Island, 7–8; at Scotts Hill, 169; at Southport, 271, 276; at Sunset Beach, 312; at Swansboro, 145, 147, 149; at Topsail Island, 160; at Wilmington, 179, 186, 188–89, 192–93, 201, 202, 226–27; at Wrightsville Beach, 222; monuments to, 131, 182, 202
Civilian Conservation Corps, 327
Clarendon Plantation, 247, 255–56
Clarke, Mary Bayard Devereux, 133
Clay, Henry, 196
Clemmons, Lloyd, 332
Cleveland, Grover, 325
Cliffhanger, 179
Clubfoot/Harlowe Canal, 36
Clyde River, 299
Coast Line Convention Center, 193
Coca-Cola, 112
Coleman, Lucy, 313–14
Colonial Assembly, 11
Colonial Records of North Carolina, 151
Colonial Road, 258
Colonial Williamsburg, 118, 186–87
Columbus, Christopher, 282
Columbus County, 317, 318–24, 333–35
Columbus County Courthouse, 333
Colwell, John, 174
Commission (Lehman-Duffy) House, 119
Community Cemetery (Portsmouth), 9
Compton, Spencer, 185
Coney Island, 230
Consolidated Railway Light and Power Company, 223
Continental Congress, 174
Coolidge, Charles E., 132
Coor-Cook House, 129
Coor-Gaston House, 104, 127, 128
coquina outcrops, 240
Corbett, Albert, 216–17
Corbett, Bertha Barefoot, 216–17
Core Banks, 16–25
Core Creek, 59
Core Creek Canal, 36
Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild, 40
Core Sound Decoy Festival, 40
Core-Sounder, 44
Core Sound Waterfowl Museum, 40
Corncake Inlet, 280
Cornwallis, Charles, 58, 185–86, 199, 200
Corolla, 289
Cotton Exchange, 211
Council Bluff, 127
Crane Island, 41
Craney Island, 41
Craven County, 57, 106–33, 139, 140
Craven County Arts Council, 104, 113
Craven County Courthouse, 104, 124, 125
Crimes of the Heart, 274
Crimes of the Heart House, 266, 273–74
CROATAN, 52
Croatan National Forest, 52, 76, 134, 135, 138–41
CROATOAN, 41
Cross Creek, 172
Cross Point, 138
Crow, The, 179
Cruizer, 270
Crusoe, Ben, 321
Crusoe Island, 316, 317, 319–21, 326
Crusoe, Robinson, 320
Crystal Beach, 329
Crystal Coast, 76–103
Crystal Coast Amphitheater, 79, 143
Crystal Coast Civic Center, 77, 78
Crystal Coast Visitors Center, 78
Crystal Pier, 222
Cumberland County, 253
Currituck Lighthouse, 18, 19, 289
Cushing, William B., 145
Cutter, Carrie E., 131–32
Cutting-Allen House, 130
Cypress Natural Area, 138
Dallas, 252
Dance, Robert B., 60
Daniels, Charlie, 211
Date With An Angel, 179
Daughters of the American Revolution, 168
Davers Island, 41
David, David, 206
Davis, 3, 25, 34, 35, 44, 45–47
Davis, George, 183, 201, 261–62, 290
Davis, James, 124
Davis, Jefferson, 239
Davis, Mose, 46
Davis, Pearson, 166
Davis, Sallie Pasteur, 64
Davis, Sammy, Sr., 211
Davis, William, 45
Dawson-Clark (Louisiana) House, 133
DeCambray, Le Chevalier, 21
Declaration of Independence, 211, 261
Deep Hole Creek, 43
Deep River, 253
Defoe, Daniel, 321
DeGraffenried, Christophe, 106, 107–08, 111, 126, 127
DEG Studios, 178–79
DeLaurentiis, Dino, 178
DeRosset, Annie, 181
Detroit, 179
Diamond City, 3, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 42
Diamond Shoals, 19
Dickens, Charles, 209
Dickinson, James H., 182
Dixon Cemetery, 13
Dobbs, Arthur, 21, 23, 115–46, 199, 263
Dobbs, Justina Davis, 115
Donald MacRae House, 202
Dorsey, Tommy, 224
Dow Chemical Company, 233–34
Drane, Robert B., 182
DuBois, Peter, 187
Dudley, Edward B., 183, 192, 196
Duke University Marine Laboratory, 84
Duke University/University of North Carolina Consortium, 84
Duplin County, 167
Durante, Jimmy, 314
Dwight Morrow, 254
Eagles Island, 203, 246, 247, 248, 251, 253, 254
East Beach, 280
Easton, John, 61
East Pond Overlook, 98
Ecce Homo, 201
Eddy, Mary Baker, 211
Edward I, 120
Edward R. Stanly House, 104, 113
Ehringhaus, J. C. B., 91
Eli Smallwood House, 133
Elizabeth, 299
Elizabeth I, 330
Elizabeth River, 294
Elizabeth Thomas House, 122
Elizabethtown, 316, 317, 329, 330–31
Ellerbrook, William A., 183
Elliott Coues Natural Trail, 94
Elliott, J. A., 287
El Salvadore, 164
Emerald Isle, 76, 77, 101–2, 143
Emmett, Edward, 157
England, John, 128
English Channel, 300
Ethyl Corporation, 233–34
Ethyl-Dow Chemical Corporation, 215, 234
Evans, Herbert, 167
Faith of Our Fathers, 206
Falmouth, Massachusetts, 148
Fanny and Jenny, 222
Farmers Turnout, 324
Farragut, David, 133
Fayetteville, 113, 172, 194, 326
Federal Building (New Bern), 128
Federal Paper Board Company, 317
Federal Point, 244
Federal Point Peninsula, 228
Ferber, Edna, 249
Ferdinando, Simon, 283
Fernwood, 82
Figure Eight Island, 157, 170–71
Figure Eight Yacht Club, 170
Fisher, Charles, 239
Fishtown, 57
First Baptist Church (New Bern), 104, 113
First Baptist Church (Wilmington), 182, 191–92
First Presbyterian Church (New Bern), 104, 105, 129
First Presbyterian Church (Wilmington), 176, 203–4
First Provincial Congress, 124
Five Nations, 108
Five Power Treaty, 249
Flagler, Henry Morrison, 191
Flagler, Mary Lily Kenan, 191
Flemington, 323
Florida, 83, 191, 232, 235, 270, 302, 304, 318, 322, 323
Florida, 222
Folly Hill, 297
Fondrie, Ellis, 52
Ford, John T., 208
Ford’s Theatre, 208
Forks, The, 253
FormyDuvall, Jean, 319
Fort Anderson, 247, 260, 262, 263
Fort Bragg, 325
Fort Campbell, 294
Fort Caswell, 90, 269, 293, 294, 301–2
Fort Dobbs, 94
Fort Fisher (fort): blockade running at, 237; Civil War battles at, 237–40; erosion at, 223, 240, 241; monuments at, 238; preservation of, 237–38
Fort Fisher Air Force Base, 236
Fort Fisher hermit, 215, 241–43
Fort Fisher Monument, 238, 240
Fort Fisher (resort village), 236
Fort Fisher-Southport Ferry, 237, 243
Fort Fisher State Historic Site, 215, 236, 237–40
Fort Fisher State Recreational Area, 236–37, 240
Fort Hampton, 94
Fort Hancock, 22
Fort, Henry K., 101–2
Fort Huggins, 145
Fort Johnston, 90, 266, 267, 269–70, 271, 275
Fort Macon, 43, 77, 81, 90–96, 301
Fort Macon Coast Guard Station, 94–95
Fort Macon State Park, 76, 77, 89–94
Fort Marion, 94
Fort Moultrie, 301
Fort Shaw, 294
Fort St. Philip, 262
Fort Sumter, 301
Fort Washington, 7
“Four Sisters,” 275
Foy Island, 171
Foy, James, 171
Foy, James, Jr., 168
Francis I, 225
Franklin Square, 275–76
Franklin Square Gallery, 275
Fred the Horse, 124
Freeman, 324
French, Charles, 66–68
French, Nancy Manney, 55, 66–68
French Revolution, 319
Frying Pan Lightship, 275
Frying Pan Shoals, 282, 289, 290
Furman, Richard, 113
Furman University, 113
Gabriel, Roman, 184
Gale, Christopher, 107
Gallows Hill, 188
Gander Hall, 228
Garner, Ted, 86
Garner, Ted, Jr., 86
Gaskins, Rosie, 8
Gaston County, 128
Gause Family Cemetery, 310
Gause, John Julius, 311
Gause, William, Sr., 310
George Davis Statue, 201
George Hills, 14
Georgetown, South Carolina, 287, 318
Gettysburg, 121
Ghost Fleet of Wilmington, 247, 254–55
Gibraltar of America, 239
Gibson, Althea, 212
Gloucester, 34, 35, 38, 42, 43, 44
Godfrey, Thomas, 207
Goldston’s Beach, 329
Gore, Mannon, 311
Governor Dudley Mansion, 176, 177, 196–97
Governor’s Mansion, 191
Grace Episcopal Church, 136
Grace Family Cemetery, 10
Grady Monument, 175
Grand Strand, 309
Granston Lake, 329
Great Depression, 24, 139, 149, 284, 302, 306, 327
Greater Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, 193
Greene, Nathanael, 120, 133, 186
Greenfield Lake, 212
Greenfield Park, 212
Green, Grace, 148
Green Grass, 15–16
Greenhow, Rose O’Neal, 183
Green, John, 317
Green, Jonathan, 148
Greenock, Scotland, 224
Green, Paul, 64
Green Swamp, 304, 316, 317–21, 326
Green Swamp Preserve, 317
Green-Wade House, 121
Greenwich Village, 49
Guadalcanal, 251
Guilford Courthouse, 186
Gulf Stream, 82
Gull Harbor, 133
Guthrie, Kilby, 88
Hall of Fame of American Trees, 133
Hallsboro, 316
Hamburg, Germany, 183
Hammocks Beach State Park, 134, 135, 150–53, 154
Hampstead, 156, 157, 163, 167–68, 171
Hampstead Spot Festival, 168
Hampton, Lionel, 224
Hampton Mariner’s Museum, 60
Hampton Roads, 250
Hancock, Enoch, 22
Harbor Channel, 85
Harbor Island (Carteret County), 53
Harbor Island (New Hanover County), 219, 220, 221, 226
Harker, Ebenezer, 41
Harkers Island: boatbuilding industry of, 39–40, 44; description of, 39–42; ferry to Cape Lookout National Seashore, 16, 25; history of, 40–42; refugees from Cape Lookout 32, 42; size of, 39
Harlem Globetrotters, 212
Harlowe Creek, 36
Harnett, Cornelius, 171, 192, 261, 270
Harnett County, 253
Harnett Obelisk, 192
Harrell, Robert Edward, 241–43
Harvey W. Smith Watercraft Center, 54, 61
Hatch-Washington House, 104, 111
Hatteras Inlet, 7
Hatteras Island, 44
Haw River, 253
Hawkins, Francis L., 284
Hawks, Francis, 130
Hawley, Joseph, 189
Haywood, John, 203
Heady, Daniel, 151
Heady’s Beach, 151
Hemenway, Mary Tileston, 205
Hemingway, Ernest, 242
Henrietta II, 194–95
Henry, Jacob, 61
Henry, Patrick, 317
Herman, Woody, 224
High Point, 279
Hill, Daniel Harvey, 126
Hilton, William, 229
Hispaniola, 283
Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., 190
Historic Wilmington Foundation, 186
History Trail, 175
Hobucken, 94
Hodges, Luther, 210
Hoffman, Alice, 99–101
Hofmann, Julius V., 138
Hoke, Robert F., 126–27, 226–27, 229
Holden Beach, 292, 293, 294, 298, 299, 304–08
Holden, Benjamin, 305
Holden, John F., 306
Holden, John, Jr., 305
“Holiday Inlet,” 220
Holly Ridge, 156, 157, 160, 165–66
Holly Shelter Game Land, 156, 157, 166–67
Hollywood Kennel Club, 77
Holmes, Theophilus H., 282
Horse Island (Beaufort waterfront), 69
Horse Island (northeast Core Sound), 53
Hubert, 134
Hudson River, 254
Hudsucker Proxy, The, 179
Hufham, Joseph, 307
Huggins Island, 145
Hughes Gallery, 198
Hunting Quarters, 50
Hurricane David, 298
Hurricane Diane, 161
Hurricane Donna, 161
Hurricane Hazel: at Carolina Beach, 230–31, 233; at Holden Beach, 305, 306; at Kure Beach, 236; at Long Beach, 296–98; at Ocean Isle Beach, 309; at Southport, 272; at Sunset Beach, 311; at Topsail Island, 160–61; at Wrightsville Beach, 221
Hurricane Hugo, 295
Hurst, Gertrude, 152
Hurst, John, 152
Huske, Joseph, 113
Indiana, 203
Indian Trail Tree, 266, 274–75
Inlet Island, 83
Institute of Marine Sciences, 78, 79
Intracoastal Waterway, 36, 68, 82, 159, 162, 168, 214, 218, 227, 271, 292, 305
Iron Age, 299
Iron Steamer Fishing Pier, 98
Island Marsh, 70
Jackson, Stonewall, 182
Jacksonville, Florida, 193
Jacob’s Run, 200–201
Jarrett Bay, 45
Jefferson Memorial, 216
Jefferson, Thomas, 90
Jerkins-Duffy House, 132
John A. Taylor House, 176, 184, 192
John Boyce, 254
John Chadwick House, 121
John D. Flanner House, 132
John H. Jones House, 122
John Horner Hill House, 121
John Lawson, map of 1709, 142
Johns Hopkins University, 161
Johnson C. Smith University, 335
John Taxis, 196
John Wright Stanly House, 105, 119–21
Jolly Roger Fishing Pier, 162
Jolly Roger Motel, 165
Jonathan Green, Jr. House, 144, 147, 149
Jones, Charles, 63
Jones County, 135–42
Jones County Courthouse, 136
Jones, Harvey, 163
Jones-Jarvis House, 133
Jones, John Paul, 21–22
Jones Lake State Park, 317, 329–30
Jones, Pembroke, 196, 215, 217
Jordan, Michael, 186
Joseph Bell House, 56
Joseph L. Rhem House, 122
Josiah Bell House, 56
Jubilee Park, 230
Jurgenson, Sonny, 184
Justice, John, 111
Keaton, Diane, 273
Kellenberger, Mrs. John A., 118
Kenansville, 191
Kenan, William Rand, Jr., 190–91, 197
Kendall, 255
Kennedy, John F., 127
Kentucky, 11
Keziah, Bill, 265
Kidd, William, 224–25
Kilby Guthrie House, 88
Kill Devil Hill, 47
Kill Devil Hills, 31
King, Duncan, 333–34
King Kong Lives, 179
King, Lydia Fosque, 334
Kings Business College, 334
King’s Chapel, 112
King, William Rufus, 334
Kipling, Rudyard, 206
Knight, Tobias, 151
Kuhns, 142–43
Kuhns, William, 142
Kurault, Charles, 211
Kure Beach Fishing Pier, 236
Kure, Hans, 235–36
Kure, L. C., 236
Kyser, Kay, 224
Lafayette, Marquis de, 120
Lake Phelps, 238
Lakeside Park, 212
Lake Waccamaw (lake), 316, 317, 318, 320, 322–24, 328
Lake Waccamaw (town), 322–23
Lake Waccamaw State Park, 323–24
Lamb, William, 239
Landmark, The, 230
Lange, Jessica, 273
Lassiter, Luther “Wimpy,” 212
Latham, Maude Moore, 117–18
Latimer, Zebulon, 204
Ledgett, Connie, 297–98
Lee County, 253
Lee, Henry, 186
Lee, Robert E., 90, 94, 182, 222, 239, 240
Leitner, J. F., 333
Lejeune, Eugenia, 154
Lejeune, John Archer, 154
Lemon, Meadowlark, 212
Lenoir County, 57
Leonard, Sugar Ray, 211
Leon, Ponce de, 307
Lewis Creek, 52
“Lifeline of the Confederacy,” 193, 201, 271
lightering, 5
Lillington, Alexander, 173
Lilliput, 255
Lincoln, Abraham, 59, 90, 126, 334
Litchfield, Connecticut, 129
Loan of a Lover, The, 208
Lockwoods Folly Inlet, 292, 293, 298–99, 305
Lockwoods Folly River, 292, 299, 303
Lombardo, Guy, 224
Long Beach, 292, 293, 294, 295–99
Long Beach Scenic Walkway, 299
Lookout Shoals, 23
Loose Cannons, 179
Lords Proprietors, 57, 107, 109, 273
Loring, William Wing, 211
Lost Colonists of Roanoke, 319
Lost Colony of Roanoke, 41, 52, 326
Lost Colony, The (outdoor drama), 64
Louisiana, 133
Louis Poisson House, 197
Louvre, 332
Lower Cape Fear Historical Society, 205
Lower Ferry, 157
Lumina Steel Pier, 222
Luola’s Chapel, 259
Lupton, 53
Lusty Wind For Carolina, 256
MacDonald, Donald, 172–73
Maco Light, 324–26
Macon, Nathaniel, 90
MacRae, Alexander, 183
Maffitt, John Newland, 183, 194
Manteo (Indian), 41
Manteo (town), 98
Marching On, 259
Marie, 179
Marine Biomedical Center, 84
Marion, Francis, 314
Marion, Isaac, 314
Marker Island, 41
Marshall, Matt, 43
Marshall, Peter, 204
Martin, Josiah, 113, 116, 172, 270
Mashburn, Carl, 194
Masonboro State Park, 229
Masonic Lodge (Southport), 276
Matteau, 227
Mattie King Davis Library, 56
Maude Moore Latham Garden, 118
Maultsbury, John, 185
Maulstby, Josiah, 323
Maximum Overdrive, 179
Maynard, Robert, 73–74
McArthur, Douglas, 239
McCoy, Jabe, 334
McCoy, Mille-Christine, 317, 334–35
McIlhenny’s Mill Pond, 212
McKinlay-Daves-Duffy House, 121
McKoy, James H., 198
McLeod, Donald, 172–73
McRae-Beery House, 197
Melvin Beach, 329
Melvin, Ralph, 329
Meredith College, 113
Meredith, Thomas, 113
Merrimac, 215
Michel, Franz Ludwig, 107
Middens Creek, 44
Middle Island, 280
Middle Marsh, 69
Milney, George, 44
Miss North Carolina Pageant, 77
Mitchell, George W., 157
Mitchell, Kent, 279
Mitchell-Stevenson House, 132
Mohave Desert, 160
Money Island Beach, 95
Monkey Junction, 227
Montvale, New Jersey, 317
Moore, Alfred, 263
Moore, Elizabeth, 172
Moorehead, Agnes, 209
Moore, James, 170, 172–73, 257, 273
Moore, “King” Roger, 257–58, 260
Moore, Mary Dorothy Vail, 105
Moore, Nathaniel, 257
Moores Creek Bridge, 173, 174, 185
Moores Creek National Military Park, 156, 171–75
Morehead City: description of, 77–89; historic structures of, 77, 79, 81; history of, 77, 79–82, 85–86, 88; map of, 78; marine research facilities at, 79; port facilities at, 81–83; waterfront, 84–87
Morehead City Municipal Building, 78, 88
Morehead City Port Commission, 82
Morehead, John Motley, 79–80, 82
Morris, Don, 14–16
Morris Marina, 15
Mt. Lebanon Chapel, 217
Mullet Pond, 30
Mullet Shore, 30
Murchison-First Union Building, 210
Murchison, Kenneth M., 258
Myrtle Beach, 295
Myrtle Grove Junction, 227
Myrtle Grove Sound, 232
Nathan Tisdale House, 122
National Archives Building, 216
National Estuarine Research Reserve System, 225
National Football League, 184
National Gallery of Art, 216
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 84
National Park Service, 3–4, 9–10, 15, 16–17, 19–20, 24, 25–26
National Science Foundation, 84
Nelson Bay, 48
Neuse River, 2, 34, 36, 47, 104, 106, 108, 126, 137, 139
Neuse River Council of Governments, 113
Neuse River Recreation Area, 139
New Bern: cemeteries of, 105, 112, 131–32; Civil War history of, 113, 114, 121, 126–27, 130, 131–32; description of, 105–33; founding of, 106–9; historic structures of, 104, 110–13; map of, 104; museums of, 105, 114, 115–18, 123
New Bern Academy Museum, 104, 105, 129–30
New Bern City Hall, 104, 105, 110–11
New Bern Civil War Museum, 104, 114
New Bern Firemen’s Museum, 104, 105, 123–24
New Bern Historical Society, 122, 123
New Bern Historic District, 110
New Bern National Cemetery, 105, 131–32
New England, 21, 44, 148, 172, 224, 261
New Farmers of America, 153
New Hanover County, 177–245, 247–54
New Hanover Courthouse, 176, 184, 207
New Hanover High School, 184
New Jersey, 101, 112, 131, 136, 322
New Jersey (United States battleship), 253
New Liverpool, 185
New Orleans, 179
Newport River, 34, 36, 57, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81
New River, 134, 154–55, 156, 157
New River Ferry, 157
New River Marine Base, 154
Newsome, Ken, 86
New Town, 148
New Voyage to Carolina, A, 107
New York (city), 49, 50, 100, 113, 163, 178, 179, 235, 249
New York (state), 179, 200, 254, 287
New York Opera House, 208
New York Public Library, 191
New York Times, 313
Nimitz, Chester, 250
Nixon, Pat, 119
Norfolk, Virginia, 48, 82, 249, 287
Norfolk-Western Railroad, 23
Normandy, France, 320
North Carolina (nineteenth-century battleship), 248
North Carolina (United States battleship), 194, 203, 247–53
North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, 98, 215, 237, 240–43
North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores, 77, 98
North Carolina Baptist Convention, 302
North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 238, 255, 282
North Carolina Division of Coastal Management, 225, 284
North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, 84
North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation, 284
North Carolina Fourth of July Festival, 275
North Carolina General Assembly, 61, 127, 148, 172
North Carolina Maritime Museum, 54, 55, 60–61, 70
North Carolina Military Historical Society, 237
North Carolina Military History Museum, 237
North Carolina Nature Conservancy, 70, 317
North Carolina Seafood Festival, 87
North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, 254
North Carolina State Archives, 12
North Carolina State Port at Morehead City, 77, 78, 81–83
North Carolina State Port at Wilmington, 177, 213
North Carolina State Ports Authority, 83, 273
North Carolina State University School of Forestry, 138
North Carolina State University Seafood Laboratory, 84
North Carolina Supreme Court, 128, 130
North Carolina Teachers Association, 152
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, 138, 167, 260
North River, 2, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 45, 57
North River Channel, 69
North Topsail Shores, 159
Nova Scotia, 84
Nuclear Visitor Center, 267–68
Oakdale Cemetery, 177, 179, 180–84, 207
Oak Forest Plantation, 331
Oak Island, 95, 269, 271, 289, 292, 293–302
Oak Island Coast Guard Station, 300
Oak Island Lighthouse, 269, 281, 293, 300
Oceanic Pier, 222
Ocean Isle Beach, 292, 293, 306, 308–9, 311
Ocean Isle Museum of Coastal Carolina, 308–9
Ocean View, 220
Ocracoke Inlet, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 106
Ocracoke Island, 1, 3, 5, 12, 48, 49, 74
Ocracoke village, 3, 7, 10, 12, 16
Ogilby, map of 1671, 298
Old Baldy Foundation, 282
Old Brick Road, 5
Old Burying Ground, 54, 55, 64–68
Old City Hall, 21
Old Dock, 316, 317, 318–19, 321
Old Drum Inlet, 21
Old Man and the Boy, The, 184, 274
Old Man’s Boy Grows Older, The, 184
“Old North State, The,” 128
Old Pirate Ship Treasure Pit, 164
Old Rock, 11
Old Smithville Burying Ground, 266, 277–78
Old Southport Yacht Basin, 266, 272
Old Spanish Galleon Treasure Hunt, 164
Old Town Restoration Complex, 54, 55, 56–57, 65
Onslow Beach, 154
Onslow County, 142, 145–55, 159–62, 165–66
Open Ground Prairie Swamp, 35
Open Grounds Farm, 35–36
Open Land, 35
Operation Bumblebee, 157, 160, 161–62, 165
Operation Desert Shield, 83
Operation Desert Storm, 83
Oregon Inlet, 7
Oriental, 36
Orton Plantation, 170, 178, 246, 255, 257–60, 262, 264, 310
Orton Pond, 246
Osceola, 323
Osgood Cottage, 122
Outer Banks, 4, 7, 17, 18, 29, 31, 60, 72, 87, 89, 90, 97, 99, 158, 287
“Over Creek People,” 326
Owen Hill, 327
Packer, F. H., 202
Palmer-Tisdale House, 130
Palmetto Island, 284
Pamlico County, 41
Pamlico Sound, 4, 5, 6, 11, 34, 44, 47, 51, 53, 126
Panama Canal Zone, 250
Parke, John G., 91
Parris Island, 154
Pasteur, Louis, 64
Patrick Gordon House, 104, 114
Patriot Monument, 175
Patriot, The, 287–88
Paul, William Luther, 47
Pea Landing, 313
Pearl Harbor, 91, 165, 249, 250, 302
Pender County, 159, 160, 162–65, 166–75
Pendleton House, 122
Pennsylvania Gazette, 308
People’s Republic of China, 63
Pep Kola, 112
Perry, Matthew C., 248
Perry, William G., 118
Peterhoff, 238
Petersburg, Virginia, 127
Philadelphia, 66, 101, 125, 174, 207, 322
Pickett Bay, 144
Pier Number One, 80
Pigott, Emeline, 121
Pilot Life Insurance Company, 86
Pilots’ Association, 271
Pine Knoll Shores, 76, 77, 96, 97–99, 100, 101
Pine Valley Estates Subdivision, 214, 226–27
Piney Point, 47
Piver, Bannister, 32
Piver’s Island, 60, 77, 78, 84
Pleasure Island, 214, 215, 225, 227, 228–45
Pleistocene era, 322
Point, The, 298–99
Pollock, Cullen, 109
Pollock, George, 127
Pollocksville, 134, 135, 137–38
Pond Pine Area, 138
Pontiac, 46–47
Pool, William G., 287
Poor No More, 184
Pope, John Russell, 215–16
Poplar Grove Foundation, Inc., 168
Poplar Grove Plantation, 168–70, 171
Porter, John, 21
Portsmouth Coast Guard Station, former, 6, 13
Portsmouth Island, 2, 3–16, 25, 49, 65
Portsmouth Methodist Church, 10, 12, 13
Portsmouth Post Office, former, 6, 8, 9, 11
Portsmouth School, former, 6, 11
Portsmouth (village), 3, 4–14, 17, 20
Powell, John, 323
Power, Tyrone, 210
Prevensey, 98
Price’s Creek Lighthouse, 278
Prichard, John L., 182
Prince of Parthia, The, 207
Princeton University, 126, 196
Prometheus, 146
Prouty, W. F., 322
Providence, Rhode Island, 284
Public Works Administration, 82, 185
Quantico, Virginia, 154
Rachel Carson National Marine Estuarine Sanctuary, 55, 69–71
Rains, George Washington, 132
Rains, James G., 132
Raleigh, 12, 152, 191, 202, 277, 332
Raleigh, Walter, 20, 23, 41, 216, 283
Rambo, 179
Randall, Robert R., 49
Rand McNally, 268
Ranger, 299
Rebecca, 261
Red and Eve’s, 230
Red Springs, 102
Revenge, The, 285
Revolutionary War: at Beaufort, 58; at Brunswick Town, 260, 261–62; at Elizabethtown, 330; at Gloucester, 43; at Moores Creek Bridge, 171–75, 185; at New Bern, 117, 120, 133; at Southport, 270; at Wilmington, 186, 199–200, 201
Rice Path, 99
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” 60
“Ripley’s Believe It Or Not,” 92, 274
Ritter and Company, 107
Ritter, George, 107
Riverfront Park, 177, 194, 195
River View, 319–21
Robert Spence McLean Store, 144, 146–47
Rockefeller, John, 191
Rocks, The, 171, 215, 237, 244–45
Roosevelt, Franklin, 152
Rose, Charlie, 30–31
Royal Canadian Air Force, 252
Royal James, 285
R. Rustell House, 56
Russell, Lillian, 209
Russell, Mrs. Joseph R., 204
Russells Island, 145
Ruth, Babe, 139
Said, Omar Ibm, 327
Sailor’s Snug Harbor, 35, 49–50
Saline Water Research Station, 226
Salter Path, 76, 77, 97, 99–101
Salters, Sallie, 330
Salters, Walter, 330
Samuel W. Smallwood House, 133
Sam Windsor’s Lump, 30
San Ceriaco, 47
Sandy, Uriah, 129
Sanford, Terry, 27
San Francisco, 250
Sanitary Fish Market and Restaurant, 85
Sauthier, C. J., 129
Savage-Bacon House, 203
Sea Island, 42
Sea Level, 3, 34, 35, 47, 48–50
Sea Level Hospital, 48–49
Sea Level Inn, 49
Seamon, Jesse Lee, 86
Seashore Hotel, 221
Seaside Amusement Park, 2
Sea Side Park Hotel, 215
“Seneca Guns,” 303
Serapis, 22
Shacklefoot Island, 153
Shackleford Banks: controversy over, 25–26; description of, 25–33; former communities of, 29–33, 36, 40; wild horses on, 25–26
Shackleford, John, 20–21
Shallotte, 167, 292, 293, 305, 308, 316, 317
Shallotte Inlet, 292, 293, 305, 306–7, 308
Sharpe, William, 152–53
Shaw University, 335
Sheep Island, 11
Shell Castle Island, 3, 7, 11–12
Shell Island, 219
Shelote, 308
Shepard, Sam, 274
Shepard’s Point, 80
Shepard’s Point Land Company, 80
Sherman, William T., 196
Shine, Elizabeth, 133
Shingle Point, 24
Shober, James F., 212
Sidbury, J. Buren, 226
Sikorsky, Igor, 47
Silver Bullet, 179
Silver Lake, 3
Singletary Lake State Park, 317, 328
Skyliner, 230
Slave Canal, 36
Sleeping With The Enemy, 179
Sleepy Creek, 43
Sloan and Balderson, 124
Sloan, Samuel, 191
Slocumb, Ezekial, 174–75
Slocumb, Mary “Polly” Hooks, 174–75
Small Boat Harbor, 273
Smith-Anderson House, 176–97
Smith, Benjamin, 114, 256, 270
Smithfield, 102
Smith Island, 280
Smith, Michael, 68
Smith, Pearson, 334
Smunar Creek, 44
Sneads, Robert W., 157–58
Snow Hill, 108
Snows Cut Park, 228
Somerset, Henry, 57
Sons of Liberty, 261
Soong Yao-jo, 63
Sousa, John Philip, 209
South America, 82, 83, 87, 213, 227
South Beach, 283
South Carolina, 24, 174, 200, 203, 285, 287, 288, 312, 314, 315, 318
Southern Realty and Development Company, 231
South Mills, 167
Southport: description of, 267–79; historic structures of, 266, 267, 268–69, 272–78; history of, 270–71; map of, 266
Southport-Fort Fisher Ferry, 278, 279
Southport Historic District, 266, 267
Southport Marina, 273
Southport Maritime Museum, 266, 275
South River (Down East village), 34, 35, 36
South River (waterway), 34, 36
South Shell Island, 219
South, Stanley, 145
Spacek, Sissy, 273
Spaight Family Cemetery, 105
Spaight, Richard Dobbs, 105, 117, 120, 121, 123, 158
Spaight, Richard Dobbs, Jr., 105
Spanish-American War, 91
Sparrow, Thomas, 41
Spotswood, Alexander, 108
Sprunt, James Laurence, 196, 258
Sprunt, Luola Murchison, 258
Stanbury, 292
Stanly, Ann, 121
Stanly County, 121
Stanton, Edwin M., 59
Starr Methodist Church, 38–39
Staten Island, 49–50
Station One, 221
Statue of Liberty, 22
St. Augustine, Florida, 92
St. Elmo’s Fire, 325
Stephens, Alexander H., 240
Stevenson House, 118–19
Stevenson, Thomas G., 145
St. James Episcopal Church, 176, 177, 182, 201–2
St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery, 176, 177, 207
St. John’s Masonic Lodge (Wilmington), 197–98
St. John’s Masonic Lodge and Theater (New Bern), 128
St. John’s Museum of Art, 176, 177, 197–98
St. John’s Tavern, 198
St. Joseph, 231
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 206
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 198
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 54, 63–64
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, 176, 187–88
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, 104, 128
St. Philips Episcopal Church, 276
Straits, 34, 35, 38–39, 42, 44
Straits Fishing Pier, 39
Strange Seafood Exhibition, 61
St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 182
Sturtevant, Robert Swan, 260
Styron Bay, 51
Suffolk, Virginia, 158
Sugar Loaf, 229
Sugar Loaf Trail, 229
Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, 174
Sunny Point Military Ocean Terminal, 247, 255, 264, 265, 270, 303
Sunset Beach, 292, 293, 311–12
Sunset Beach Bridge, 311
Sun Yat-sen, Mrs., 63
Super Mario Brothers, 179
Surf City, 157, 160, 163–64, 165
“Swamp Fox,” 314
Swan, Charles Norton, 289
Swan Island, 47
Swann, Samuel, 148
Swannsborough, 148
Swansboro, 94, 134, 135, 143, 144, 145–50
Swash Inlet, 14
Swift, Joseph Gardner, 211
Taft, William, 196
Taiwan, 63
Tandy, Jessica, 209–10
Tarheel Trail, 175
Taylor, Alfred, 48
Taylor, Daniel, 48
Taylor Foundation, 49
Taylor, Isaac, 110
Taylor, John Lewis, 130
Taylor, Leslie, 48
Taylor, Nathaniel, 64
Taylors Creek, 57, 59, 68, 69, 70, 73
Taylor, William, 48
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 179
Temple of Israel, 206–7
Texas, 235
Texasgulf, Inc., 82
Thalian Association, 208
Thalian Hall, 176, 177, 196, 207–10
Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area, 77, 98
Thomas and Son, 113
Thomas Cottage, 122
Thomas Jerkins House, 132
Thumb, Tom, 209
Tileston Normal School, 205
Timberlake, Bob, 290
Times Square, 178
Titanic, 196
T. M. Thompson House, 266, 275
Toppel, R. A., 216
Toppel tree, 216
Topsail Beach, 156, 157, 164–65
Topsail Island, 156, 157, 158–65
Tory Hole Park, 330
Total Recall, 179
Tote-Em-In-Zoo, 227
Town Creek, 246, 256, 257, 310
Traditional Wooden Boat Show, 61
Tregembo, George, 227
Trent, 136
Trent Bridge, 137
Trent River: at New Bern, 104, 105, 106, 107, 114, 116, 133, description of, 137; in Jones County, 134, 135, 136, 137
Trimble, John, 208
Trinity College, 63
Trinity Methodist Church, 330–31
Trumpeter Swamp, 166
Tryon Palace, 114–18, 122, 127, 129, 130
Tryon Palace Commission, 117
Tryon Palace Restoration, 105, 114–18, 130
Tryon, William, 115–16, 118, 255, 263
Turner, Robert, 57
Tyrant in Every Home, A, 123
Udall, Stewart, 27
Ulysses S. Mace House, 104, 123
Underwater Archaeology Laboratory, 238
Union Carbide Company, 191
United Daughters of the Confederacy, 184
United States Army Corps of Engineers, 27, 70, 83, 232, 244, 245, 264
United States Capitol, 201
United States Coast Guard, 8, 22, 94–95, 154, 176, 194, 288, 300, 302
United States Coast Guard Docks, 176, 194
United States Department of the Interior, 317
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 60
United States Lifesaving Service, 60, 88, 301
United States Marine Corps, 83, 153, 154
United States Marine Laboratory, 72
United States Treasury Building, 195
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 79, 191, 322
Upjohn, Hobart, 204
Valentine, William, 65
Vance, Zebulon B., 126
Vanderbilt University, 63
Vatican, 206
Vermont, 131
Verrazano, Giovanni da, 97, 225, 282
Vesta, 312
Vicksburg, Mississippi, 240
Victoria (queen of England), 334
Virginia, 24, 127, 148, 193, 300, 323
Vought Aeronautical Company, 252
Vought Kingfisher, 252
Waccamaw Indians, 318
Waccamaw River, 316, 318–19, 321, 324
Wade’s Hammock, 30
Wade Thomas, 86
Wait, Samuel, 113
Wake Forest University, 113
Walker-Cowan House, 197
Wallace Cemetery, 11
Wallace, John, 11–12
Walters, Henry H., 216
Walters, Thomas U., 201
Ward Enoch, 21
Wareiock, 57
War of Jenkins Ear, 261
Warzaristan, 82
Washington, D.C., 195, 208, 216, 235, 259
Washington, George: visit to Gause Landing, 310; visit to Hampstead, 168; visit to New Bern, 120; visit to Trenton, 136
Washington Tree, 168
Waterfront Park, 266, 267, 268–69
Waters, A. A., 113
Watson, Alfred, 202
Watson, John, 185
Webb, Silas, 80
Webster, Daniel, 196
Week’s Point, 148
Weeks, Theophilus, 148
Weetock, 142
Weitock, 142
Welches Creek Community Cemetery, 334–35
Wells-Brown-Lord House, 196
West Bay, 2
West Onslow Beach, 157, 159, 161
Wetmore, James, 195
Whale Creek, 30
Whistler, Anna Matilda McNeill, 211, 244, 317, 331–32
“Whistler’s Mother,” 332
Whit, 48
White, James B., 333
White Oak River, 76, 135, 138, 139, 140, 143, 144, 145, 148
Whiteville, 307, 316, 317, 320, 333, 334
Whiting, W. H. C., 183, 211, 239
Widow Moores Creek, 172
Wilde, Oscar, 208
William, earl of Craven, 109
William Hollister House, 122
William Jones Price House, 176, 177, 188
William Pugh Ferrand Store, 144, 145
William Rand Kenan House, 176, 197
Williamsburg, Virginia, 108
Williamson, Odell, 309
Willis, Alger, 25
Willis, John, 4
Williston Creek, 45
Wilmington: cemeteries of, 176, 177, 179–84, 207, 226–27; Civil War history of, 179, 184, 186, 188–89, 192–93, 201; description of, 177–212; founding of, 185; historic structures of, 176, 177, 182–84, 186–211; map of, 176; museums of, 176, 177, 184–85, 190, 192–93, 197–98; Revolutionary War history of, 185–86, 199–200, 201
Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad, 192
Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, 192–93, 196
Wilmington Beach, 215, 232–33, 235
Wilmington Beach Corporation, 232
Wilmington Herald, 224
Wilmington High School, 205
Wilmington Historic District, 177, 186–87, 196
Wilmington International Airport, 178
Wilmington Light Infantry Building, 184, 192
Wilmington National Cemetery, 177, 179–80
Wilmington Railroad Museum, 176, 177, 192–93
Wilson, Joseph R., 204
Wilson, Woodrow, 196, 204, 205
Wimble, James, 185
Winchell, Walter, 249
Windy Point, 306
Winner, Joseph L., 231
Winslow, John Ancrum, 211
Wise, Isaac Mayer, 206
Woman’s Club Building, 106
Wood-Notes, 133
Woods Beach, 171
World War I, 24, 79, 91, 112, 154, 249, 302
World War II: at Atlantic, 51; at Bogue Banks, 91; at Cape Lookout, 22–23; at Camp Lejeune, 154; at Holly Ridge, 165–166; at Holly Shelter, 167; at Kure Beach, 235; at Oak Island, 294, 302; at Topsail Island, 160; service of battleship North Carolina, 249–51; reserve fleet of cargo ships, 254–55.
Worthy Is The Lamb, 143
Wren, Christopher, 129
Wright brothers, 47
Wrightsville, 220
Wrightsville Beach, 89, 95, 214, 215, 218–24, 226
Wrightsville Beach Coast Guard Station, 224
Wrightsville Beach Holiday Inn, 219–20, 221
Wrightsville Sound, 215
Wrightsville Sound Causeway, 221
Wright, Thomas H., 200
Wright, Wilbur, 31
Yaupon Beach, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 299, 302
Yaupon Beach Pier, 295
Year of the Dragon, 179
Yeatman, Georgiana, 35
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, The, 179
Zebulon Latimer House, 176, 177, 204–5
Zekes Island, 244