Enjoy a slow stroll looping through Wilmington’s main historic district. Learn the history and culture from settlement in the 1700s to current day. See the coolest houses!

 

EXPERIENCE:

Experience Wilmington “History 101” and 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 railroad 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, commerical Wilmington as a World War boomtown.
Learn what happens to our towns largest industry and our subsequent emergence as a tourism and film and television community.

 

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:

Experience the towns best Victorian architecture
See Wilmington’s most notable houses of worship
Learn how town survives the Civil War and thrives during Reconstruction

 

 

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