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StarNews Media Presents "Cape Fear Unearthed," a podcast digging into the history books of Southeastern North Carolina. The weekly podcast will feature stories drawn from the region's persis...
We talk with longtime Wilmington resident Elaine Henson about what shopping downtown in the 1950s and '60s was like: Where the department st...
Wilmington filmmaker Kent Chatfield played a starring role in "Wilmington on Fire," Christopher Everett's documentary film about Wilmington'...
For this week's episode, we talk with Margaret M. Mulrooney, author of the book "Race, Place and Memory: Deep Currents in Wilmington, North...
The tourists who stay there might not know, but the Holiday Inn at Wrightsville Beach, recently rebranded as Lumina on Wrightsville Beach, a...
We talk to Wilmington native and North Carolina jazz historian Larry Reni Thomas about The Barn, a club that shone brightly during the days...
From the early days of rice plantations to its time as an industrial zone for Wilmington's naval stores industry, Eagles Island, which with...
Before the rise of chain grocery and convenience stores, dozens of mom-and-pop stores run by independent merchants could be found in nearly...
We talk with retired StarNews sports reporter Chuck Carree about Jordan's days in the '70s and '80s playing high school basketball in Wilmin...
We talk with Mark W. Koenig, the former director of the Wilmington Railroad Museum. In January, his first book, "The Wilmington, Brunswick a...
We talk with StarNews investigative reporter Matthew Prensky about a 1983 study commissioned by the city of Wilmington that documented more...
This week, we take a deep dive into more than 15,000 historic Wilmington photographs the Cape Fear Museum recently made available to the pub...
Built in 1876 at Fourth and Market streets, Wilmington's Temple of Israel is believed to be the oldest synagogue in North Carolina and the 1...
The tale of the Christmas flounder has captured the imagination of Wilmingtonians ever since the story began running in the StarNews every C...
We talk to the folks at Legacy Architectural Salvage, an offshoot of the Historic Wilmington Foundation, about their work in preserving old...
This week, we talk to Jim Downey and Tim Pinnick of the New Hanover County Community Remembrance Project, who are involved with some of the...
In this week's episode, we take a look at the history of bridges in New Hanover County, both the bridges that exist today, and the bridges t...
Let's talk a little bit of Wilmington film history, history that took place in an unlikely location in the northern wilds of New Hanover Cou...
100 years is a long time. Almost no one even lives that long. But as we look back on the history of Wilmington, there are a handful of busin...
Let's take a look back at the many Wilmington movie theaters and drive-ins from yesteryear! Wilmington native Ann Hutteman saw movies at man...
Founded in 1966, the Historic Wilmington Foundation, which has saved dozens if not hundreds of prominent structures in downtown Wilmington,...
50 years ago, on May 16 and 17, 1971, a fire destroyed Hemenway Hall in downtown Wilmington. The New Hanover County Board of Education build...
We talk to Kevin Mercer of Cape Fear Explorers about the many historical artifacts he's found in Southeastern N.C. And we speak to Elton Fra...
Victoria Huggins, the 74th queen of Wilmington's N.C. Azalea Festival, talks with host John Staton about some of the festival's most famous...
Wilmington rock club The Mad Monk only lasted for 13 years, from 1983 to 1996. But the impact it had on live music in the Port City continue...
A new era begins on Cape Fear Unearthed creator Hunter Ingram bids farewell to the podcast and welcomes new host John Staton to the show. He...
Long forgotten by history, the Battle of Forks Road was the last domino to fall before Wilmington was captured by Union forces in the final...
They were inseparable in life and they were inseparable in death. Whoever said a dog is man's best friend would have certainly smiled at the...
Black Thursday: Dec. 15, 1955. To shock of Wilmington, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad announced it would be ending its century-long relati...
For more than 80 years, Wilmington had the ultimate icon of the holidays right in its backyard. The World's Largest Living Christmas attract...
On the morning of Nov. 11, 1898, Wilmington was a city in shock. The day prior, chaos reigned on the streets when a mob of armed white supre...
On the morning of Nov. 10, 1898, hell jolted loose in Wilmington, as it was later described. Chaos filled the streets as a mob of armed whit...
On the morning of Nov. 10, 1898, Wilmington awoke to violence in the streets. A white supremacist mob had started the morning by marching th...
Lula's Pub is a downtown Wilmington bar beloved for its underground aesthetic, its low-key atmosphere and its ghost story, which tells of a...
Lizzie Turlington was a promising leader in North Carolina's deaf mute community in 1886 when she was murdered in the woods outside of Ralei...
In 1791, George Washington, just two years into his presidency, set out on a tour of the Southern States. Nearly 120 years later, William Ho...
Frying Pan Tower was once the first light of the Cape Fear, serving as a light station 32 miles off the coast of Southeastern North Carolina...
As Confederate monuments come down across the country, the historic Bellamy Mansion's intertwined stories of Southern prosperity and slavery...
The Women's Suffrage Movement was fought city by city, league by league for nearly eight decades. Changing the country's mind on what role w...
Before it was one of North Carolina's most desired destinations, the setting of Nicholas Sparks' "Safe Haven" or a quaint fishing village, S...
In June 2020, the city of Wilmington removed two downtown statues to the Confederacy that had been publicly displayed for a century or more....
Seven years before the Boston Tea Party and a decade before the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence, the residents o...
Althea Gibson was considered the greatest tennis player in the world in the 1950s after becoming the first Black person to win Wimbledon. Br...
In 1744, Wilmington's first jail was commissioned at the prominent corner of Third and Market streets in the heart of the still-growing down...
When the United States was finally pulled into World War II, the city was already hard at work churning out warships on the banks of the Cap...
In its milestone 50th episode, Cape Fear Unearthed ventures into some of the most beautiful and historic places in the region with a look at...
In the fall of 1918, Wilmington's attention was on the frontlines of World War I overseas. But without realizing it, a deadly enemy managed...
History is often viewed through the lens of the accomplishments of men. But it is women who have provided the backbone for communities all o...
When America went to war to fight for its independence, it was a nation of immigrants. Among those disparate groups looking for opportunity...
How did a flag from Fort Anderson in the Cape Fear make it all the way to Washington, D.C. and become the inciting factor in a chance encoun...
By February 1865, the only thing that stood between Wilmington and the Union navy advancing up the Cape Fear River was Fort Anderson. Built...