Mission Statement:
"To advance through research, education and symposia, an increased public awareness of the Cape Fear region's unique history."
Institute Historical Essays:
The following historical essays and papers are provided by the Institute in the interest of expanding the knowledge of citizens regarding the Cape Fear region in particular; and presenting its people, culture, environment, politics, and history in general.
Wilmington's Distinguished Visitors
Colonel Bludworth's Hollow Cape Fear Citadel
Timothy Bloodworth: Cape Fear Anti-Federalist
General Robert Howe of Brunswick
General James Iver McKay of Bladen County
Vice President William Rufus King of Sampson County
Uncle Moreau, the Arabic Scholar
The Bellamy Mansion: Antebellum Masterpiece
Poplar Grove Plantation at Scott's Hill
Black Soldiers in Red, Blue & Grey
Black Slaveholders of the Cape Fear Region
David Walker: Black Wilmington Abolitionist
The Underground Railroad and Wilmington
Thomas O. Larkin, Duplin Merchant to US Consul
Benjamin Franklin Grady of Duplin County
Duplin Roads Before Wallace: A Short History
Rockfish Creek: Witness to History
George Davis: Christian, Senator, Attorney General
Charles Pattison Bolles: Coast Surveyor & Engineer
Wilmington on the Eve of Secession
Captain David Reid Murchison, Merchant & Civic Leader
Mrs. Armand J. DeRosset: Angel of Mercy
General Thomas F. Toon of Columbus County
Colonel Thomas S. Kenan of Duplin County
Judah P. Benjamin, Senator, Statesman, Barrister
Ironclad Defenders of the Cape Fear
Wilmington's Wartime Canadian Connection
The Blockade Runners Race of 1864
The Cape Fear's "Immortal 600"
The Battle of Forks Road, 1865
Colonel Thomas Jefferson Lipscomb
Robert E. Lee Visits Wilmington In 1870
General Colston's Cape Fear Academy
Colonel F.W. Kerchner, Harper's Ferry Veteran
Alfred Moore Waddell, Enlightened Wilmingtonian
Confederate Major Bernard's Wilmington Star Newspaper
Alfred Moore Waddell's Address to the Colored People
Pender County: Born of Reconstruction Politics
Wilmington's 1898 Racial Conflict
Wilmington's 1898 Racial Conflict FAQ's
Woodrow Wilson, When a Man Comes to Himself
General William MacRae: Wilmington's Fighting Brigadier
Major General John Van Bokkelen Metts
Major-General Joseph A. McNeil
Major-General William Wing Loring
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