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Timeline of the history of Wilmington, North Carolina
The following is a timeline of the
history of the city of
Wilmington, North Carolina , United States.
18th-19th centuries
20th century
21st century
2003 -
Star-News in publication.
[6]
2007 -
Bill Saffo becomes mayor.
2010 - Population: 106,476.
[20]
2015 -
David Rouzer becomes U.S. representative for North Carolina's 7th congressional district.
[21]
2018 -
Hurricane Florence makes landfall in Wilmington causing major flooding and several deaths
See also
References
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"Wilmington History" . City of Wilmington, North Carolina. Retrieved May 9, 2017 . (Timeline)
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b Cumming, William P. (1969).
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Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990 , U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
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"American Libraries before 1876" . Princeton University. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
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Wilmington Cemetery Tells Tale of a North Carolina Epidemic Retrieved May 9, 2020
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Century of Stories: New Hanover County Public Library 1906-2006 , 2006
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"Movie Theaters in Wilmington, NC" . CinemaTreasures.org . Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939),
"Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: North Carolina" , Radio Annual , New York: Radio Daily,
OCLC
2459636
^ Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960),
"Television Stations: North Carolina" , Radio Annual and Television Year Book , New York: Radio Daily Corp.,
OCLC
10512206
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b American Association for State and Local History (2002). "North Carolina". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.).
ISBN
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b North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
"This Day in North Carolina History" . Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
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"North Carolina" .
Official Congressional Directory . Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1997.
hdl :
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"Welcome to Wilmington, NC" . Archived from
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^ Kevin Hyde; Tamie Hyde (eds.).
"United States of America: North Carolina" . Official City Sites . Utah.
OCLC
40169021 . Archived from
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"Wilmington city, North Carolina" . QuickFacts . U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
^ Civic Impulse, LLC.
"Members of Congress" .
GovTrack . Washington, D.C. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
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Wilmington Directory , Geo. H. Kelley
T.H. Haddock, ed. (1871),
Wilmington, N.C., Directory , P. Heinsberger . (Includes city history, pp. 9–24)
George E. Waring, Jr. ; U.S. Department of the Interior,
Census Office (1887),
"North Carolina: Wilmington" , Report on the Social Statistics of Cities: Southern and the Western States , Washington DC: Government Printing Office, pp. 93–94
"Wilmington (2.)" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 24 (9th ed.). 1888.
"New Hanover County" . Branson's North Carolina Business Directory . Raleigh, NC: Levi Branson. 1896.
Lyman Pierson Powell , ed. (1904),
"Wilmington" , Historic Towns of the Southern States , New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
Wilmington, N.C. Directory , Richmond, Virginia: Hill Directory Co., 1905
F.H. Richardson (1905).
"Wilmington, N.C." . Richardson's Southern Guide . Chicago: Monarch Book Company – via Internet Archive.
"Wilmington (North Carolina)" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 28 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 690–691.
Federal Writers’ Project (1939).
"Wilmington" . North Carolina: a Guide to the Old North State .
American Guide Series . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 247+. {{
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Bulletin , Wilmington, NC: Lower Cape Fear Historical Society 1957-
Diane Cobb Cashman (1982).
Cape Fear Adventure: An Illustrated History of Wilmington . California: Windsor.
ISBN
0897814142 – via Open Library.
Alan D. Watson (1992).
Wilmington, Port of North Carolina . University of South Carolina Press.
ISBN
087249778X .
John L. Godwin (2000).
Black Wilmington and the North Carolina Way: Portrait of a Community in the Era of Civil Rights Protest . Lanham, Maryland:
University Press of America .
ISBN
978-0-7618-1682-9 .
Alan D. Watson (2003).
Wilmington, North Carolina, to 1861 .
McFarland & Company .
ISBN
978-0-7864-8214-6 .
Paul T. Hellmann (2006). "North Carolina: Wilmington". Historical Gazetteer of the United States . Taylor & Francis.
ISBN
1-135-94859-3 .
Beverly Tetterton (2006),
"Wilmington" , in William S. Powell (ed.), Encyclopedia of North Carolina , University of North Carolina Press
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