From the November 2011 Wilmington (NC) Star-News Back Then column.
Always enjoyable to take these looks back at a time gone by.
NOV. 24, 1911
The new railroad line between Wilmington and Southport (downriver from Wilmington) opened. Previously, other than a bad road, the best way to get between the two places was by steamer on the Cape Fear River.
NOV. 21, 1961
J.W. Grise, longtime educator in New Hanover County died. He was a veteran of World War I.
NOV. 28, 1961
When the battleship USS North Carolina arrived at Wilmington, it had 1.1 million gallons of bunker oil, diesel oil and lubricating oil aboard. No one was sure why all that was left aboard as the ship had been towed from New York. Some thought it might have been ballast.
The Battleship Commission was inviting bids to sell the oil with the proceeds going to help with the preservation and operation of the new museum ship.
Just a 'Lil Look Back. --Cooter
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