Civil War
BEERY'S SHIPYARD
Many Confederate naval vessels, including the ironclad "North Carolina," built here. Site lies across river on Eagles Island, 1/4 mile west.
D-60New Hanover County
Where it stands. US 17 Business (Market Street) between Third and Fourth streets in Wilmington
I have visited friends—reasonably affluent, and of dissimilar sexes—in what the real-estate racket calls "luxury housing," and have fled in horrified relief to a goathide tent in Timbuktu.