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NEW HANOVER, North Carolina in the 1890s: 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Three Vessels Arrive with Railroad Iron for Wilmington and Weldon RR Co
    date January 6, 1886map NEW HANOVER, North Carolinatags Urban-Life/Boosterism

    Three vessels arrived in the Wilmington port with cargoes of railroad iron for the Wilmington & Weldon R.R. Co. to build the line from Wilson to Fayetteville, known as the Short-cut. Track had already been laid from Contentnea Creek to Smithfield in Johnston County and the work of laying the iron resumed with the cargo in port. They built iron bridges across Cape Fear and the Neusse River. At the Fayetteville...

  2. The Wilmington Rebellion
    date November 9, 1898 to November 10, 1898map NEW HANOVER, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Race-Relations, War

    In November of 1898, the population of Wilmington North Carolina was composed of 8,000 white men and 25,000 black men. Many blacks were employed gainfully in the community as artisans, policeman, and fireman. Rather than look at this positively, white men were intimidated by blacks and thus considered Wilmington the “city of lost opportunity' for white men. Regardless of the fact that the majority...

  3. 1898 Wilmington Race Riot
    date November 10, 1898map NEW HANOVER, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Crime/Violence, Race-Relations

    On Thursday, November 10, 1898, at half past eight o'clock in the morning, a committee of twenty-five leading white citizens directed a group of four hundred armed men of Wilmington, North Carolina and gathered outside the armory of the local militia company where they formed in lines of four. The men included prominent clergymen, lawyers, bankers, and merchants of the city. They proceeded to march...