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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilmington, North Carolina. Official Website Wilmington is the county seat of New Hanover County. It extends into Pender County and is named after Spencer Compton , the first Earl of Wilmington. Colonial Era The area along the river had been inhabited by various successive cultures of indigenous peoples for thousands of years. A...
Wikipedia Widener University was founded in 1821 as the Bullock School for Boys preparatory school in Wilmington, Delaware, by John Bullock. Bullock operated the school until 1846 when it was sold to Samuel Alsop and renamed the Alsop School for Boys . In 1853, the school was sold to Theodore Hyatt and renamed the Hyatt's Select School for Boys , and again in 1859 to the Delaware Military Acade...
This cemetery is located on 800 Pearl Street, Wilmington, Will County, Illinois. It's also known as Saint Rose of Lima Parish Cemetery . Find a Grave
This cemetery is located on 700 Williams Street, Wilmington, Will County, Illinois. Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia The University of Delaware (colloquially "UD") is the largest university in Delaware. The main campus is in Newark, with satellite campuses in Dover, Wilmington, Lewes, and Georgetown. It is medium-sized – approximately 18,500 undergraduate and 4,500 graduate students. UD is a privately governed university which receives public funding for being a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant ...
This project is for those who are buried in Riverview Cemetery, located on 3300 North Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware. From the cemetery's Official Website : Riverview Cemetery, a Victorian garden cemetery, traces its 1872 origin to the benevolent societies of the Knights of Pythias and Independent Order of Odd Fellows. It consists of 42 acres spanning both sides of Market Street in Wilmi...
Cathedral Cemetery was established in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware and incorporated as Catholic Cemeteries, Inc. in 1876. It served as the only Diocesan Cemetery in Wilmington until the opening of All Saints Cemetery in 1958. Since its establishment, Cathedral Cemetery has gone through many renovations. In 1963, The Queen of Apostles Crypt was built and dedicated. It was the first co...
Wikipedia The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), sometimes referred to as UNC Wilmington, is a public, co-educational university located in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States. UNCW enrolls over 14,000 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students each year as part of the 17-campus University of North Carolina System. Alumni
The Battle of Wilmington was fought February 11–22, 1865, during the American Civil War , mostly outside the city of Wilmington, North Carolina , between the opposing Union and Confederate Departments of North Carolina. The Union victory in January in the Second Battle of Fort Fisher meant that Wilmington, 30 miles upriver, could no longer be used by the Confederacy as a port. It fell to Union ...
All Saints Cemetery, located on the Kirkwood Highway near Newark, was dedicated in 1958. It is beautifully landscaped with several bronze statuary groupings depicting the History of the Church, the Beatitudes and Mary, Queen of All Saints. All Christian denominations are welcome. Address: 6001 Kirkwood Highway Wilmington, New Castle County, DE 19808 Interment Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia Wilmington Friends School is a private Pre-kindergarten-12 school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States, near Wilmington. It is affiliated with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers. The school was founded in 1748 by members of the Wilmington Monthly Meeting of Friends. Of the school, Delaware historian Benjamin Ferris wrote in the 19th century, ...
Wikipedia Wilmington National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Wilmington, in New Hanover County, North Carolina. Find a Grave
Founded in 1843 by Sam Wollaston, who sought to build one of Delaware’s first non-sectarian cemeteries, we remain one of the state’s oldest, most historic and active burial grounds. All are welcome here regardless of religious affiliation or non-affiliation. Ours is a place of peace. We have many available gravesites amid 25 meticulously maintained acres of majestic grounds featuring an elegant...
Established in 1857, the cemetery is located on 605 East O Street, Wilmington, Los Angeles County, California. Find a Grave Wilmington Cemetery History
This project is for those interred in Silverbrook Cemetery & Memorial Park, Wilmington, Delaware. Notable Interments Judy Johnson (1899-1989) - Hall of Fame Negro League Baseball Player William Lloyd Nelson (1918-1943) - WWII Medal of Honor Recipient Links Find a Grave Official Website
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, occurred in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. This project seeks to better understand these events from a genealogical point of view and assist descendants of those affected to learn about their ancestor's stories.==Perpetrators==* Charles Brantley Aycock ...
47th Infantry Regiment Civil War Washington GraysHistoryMustered in: September 14, 1861 Mustered out: August 30, 1865The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912. Colonel Henry Moore received authority from the War Department, July 24, 1861, to recruit a regiment of infantry; it was recruited principally in New Y...
Sussex == Historic County of England .==Related Projects>===== Sussex - Famous People >===== Sussex - Genealogical Resources >===== Historical Sussex >===== Historic Buildings of East Sussex >===== Historic Buildings of West Sussex >===== Sussex - Monumental Inscriptions and Graveyards >===== People Connected to Sussex
The Wilmington Quicksteps were an 1884 late-season replacement baseball team in the Union Association. They finished with a 2-16 record and were managed by Joe Simmons. The team played home games in Union Street Park in Wilmington, Delaware.