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Drone photography of Figure Eight Island facing western NC A house under construction in 2016. In 1954 Hurricane Hazel hit the East Coast and destroyed much of the development from Myrtle Beach up to Topsail Beach, with more than 15,000 homes and structures destroyed and another 39,000 homes damaged.
New Hanover County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 225,702. [1] Though the second-smallest county in North Carolina by land area, [2] it is one of the most populous, as its county seat, Wilmington, [3] is one of the state's largest communities.
Wilmington's historic downtown has a 1.75-mile (2.82 km) riverwalk, [9] developed as a tourist attraction in the late 20th century. In 2014, Wilmington's riverfront was ranked as the "Best American Riverfront" by readers of USA Today. [10] The National Trust for Historic Preservation selected Wilmington as one of its 2008 Dozen Distinctive ...
June marks the beginning of another Atlantic hurricane season, and this year may be busier than usual. N.C. State University researchers are predicting 15 to 20 named tropical storms forming in ...
Carolina Beach was placed under a state of emergency Monday after a “historic” 18 inches of rain fell there in 12 hours at one station, a once-in-1,000-year rainfall event, according to the ...
The town bears the name of Joshua G. Wright of Wilmington (1842-1890), who developed a local realtor company. [6] A post office called Wrightsville was subsequently established in 1881. Accessibility to the beach improved in 1887 when Shell Road was completed, running from Wilmington to the edge of the current Intracoastal Waterway. The town ...
It was incorporated as a town in 1959 [4] and is part of the Wilmington, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 867 at the 2020 census. Located at the southern end of North Carolina's Atlantic coastline, along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Ocean Isle Beach has private homes, seasonal rentals, and tourist attractions.
The studios were moved to the Eagle Island transmitter site in the late 1950s, then to 211 North Second Street until the spring of 1992, afterwards they relocated to 1890 Dawson Street and then in July 2001 moved to their current location of 3233 Burnt Mill Road in Wilmington.