As I mentioned in the last post, I was able to attend the Federal Point Preservation Society's January meeting in Carolina Beach, N.C., at their History Center.
Dr. Jan Davidson of the Cape Fear Museum in Wilmington, N.C., gave the presentation "Service, Sacrifice & Memorialization: New Hanover County Residents in World War I."
The Society plans to have an exhibit at the museum for the 100th anniversary of World War I and plan to have it up by April. The group was looking for someone to make a presentation on the war and couldn't have done any better as Dr. Davidson got her PhD on World War I.
Fort Caswell, by Southport, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River, was actually an military base in World War I.
There was a World War I Memorial honoring New Hanover High School students who fought in the war located in front of the high school which has now been moved to Wilmington's Riverfront.
--Cooter
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Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Monday, May 15, 2017
World War I the Subject of the January Federal Point Historic Preservation Society
From the January Newsletter.
January Meeting, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.
All meetings held at 7:30 p.m.., at the Federal Point History Center at 1121-A North Lake Park Boulevard, adjacent to the Carolina Beach, N.C., Town Hall.
The speaker was Jan Davidson, historian at the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington. She discussed World War I and New Hanover County's role in the fight. She concentrated on the impact on men and women and the items her museum has from them.
She has been at the Cape Fear Museum for 11 years and has been involved in a wide variety of research projects. Lately she has been working on the history of World War I because of its upcoming centennial anniversary for the United States' involvement.
She has a PhD and has previously worked at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
I was lucky enough to attend this presentation.
--DaCoot
January Meeting, Monday, Jan. 16, 2017.
All meetings held at 7:30 p.m.., at the Federal Point History Center at 1121-A North Lake Park Boulevard, adjacent to the Carolina Beach, N.C., Town Hall.
The speaker was Jan Davidson, historian at the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science in Wilmington. She discussed World War I and New Hanover County's role in the fight. She concentrated on the impact on men and women and the items her museum has from them.
She has been at the Cape Fear Museum for 11 years and has been involved in a wide variety of research projects. Lately she has been working on the history of World War I because of its upcoming centennial anniversary for the United States' involvement.
She has a PhD and has previously worked at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
I was lucky enough to attend this presentation.
--DaCoot
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