the first popularly elected governor of North Carolina. Battles of Fort Fisher and Forks Road: 160 years In 1865, the Civil War came to an end with two decisive battles in the Wilmington area.

But you can also download the Wilmington.tours app to your smartphone, which includes four tours, including one with a pub crawl theme and another with a Civil War slant, if you'd rather take a ...

As the Union blockade squeezed the Confederate coast during the Civil War, Fort Fisher in North Carolina took on ever more ...

We explain the latest updates in the country’s civil war. By David Leonhardt Follow ... College football: A surprising candidate emerged for North Carolina’s coaching vacancy: six-time Super ...

While most people typically head to one of the top five or six main tourist destinations in the US, there are countless ...

A look at a few Wilmington civil rights pioneers from the 20th century whose contributions might be lesser-known but still ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but teaching about it, and the role slavery played in causing it, remains one of the most ...

The piers were left over in the Susquehanna from an older rail bridge that opened in 1866, shortly after the Civil War ended. The main structure of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore ...

was named for Revolutionary War hero and North Carolina's first governor, Richard Caswell, who served from 1776-1780. Caswell, an American politician and lawyer, also served as the fifth governor ...

Loomer, who has 1.4 million followers on X, unleashed a slew of racist posts falsely describing Indians as “third world invaders” with low IQs, and calling the clash a “civil war” between ...

An ugly back-and-forth, which some have labeled the “MAGA civil war,” erupted soon after. On one side of the divide are prominent far-right voices such as Loomer and Steve Bannon, who have ...