Experience Wilmington “History 101” as we wind through the city's only colonial era block, through the Victorian Era and into the 20th Century. Learn how Wilmington evolves as a port and railway town and into “Hollywood East”.
See the city's most notable homes and church buildings including homes attributed to Wilmington's captains of industry circa mid 1800s.
Topics include Wilmington during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, as the lifeline of the Confederacy, the racial events of 1898 and their aftermath, commercial Wilmington as a World War boomtown.
Learn what happens to our town’s largest industry and our subsequent emergence as a tourism and film and television community.