On 9 April 1968, the Delaware Air National Guard was called to state duty to quell civil disturbance and violence in the city of Wilmington, Delaware.
A "new" 1st Regiment of Delaware Volunteers was raised at Wilmington, Delaware between September 10 and October 19, 1861.
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Accordingly, the 1st Delaware was raised at Wilmington, Delaware on May 22, 1861 and mustered into Federal service on May 28.
Point guard Jameer Nelson's father, Floyd "Pete" Nelson, disappeared on August 30, and was found dead in the Delaware River in Wilmington, Delaware, on September 2.
The 3rd North Carolina Regiment was raised on 16 January 1776 at Wilmington, North Carolina for service with the Continental Army.
The 4th North Carolina Regiment was raised on January 16, 1776 at Wilmington, North Carolina for service with the Continental Army under the command of Thomas Polk.
John's film career started while he was having lunch with a friend in Wilmington, NC.
The Business US 17 in Wilmington was the old routing of US 17 through the port city before the partial completion of the Wilmington Bypass, which in part is also designated as Interstate 140.
Two Biflex Products Corporation plants were sold to Oakes Products Corporation at a receivership sale in Wilmington, Delaware on November 4,
Following a lengthy Illness, Chick Lang died on June 14, 1947 at age forty-one in Wilmington, Delaware where he had been training at Delaware Park.
The NSU class remained intact until the replacement of the narrow gauge Central Australian Railway in 1980 with two transferred to Gladstone for use on the Wilmington line and one to Peterborough for use on the Quorn line.
Concord, Sussex County, Delaware should not be confused with Concord, New Castle County, Delaware; the latter is a populated place located in Wilmington, bordering the northern edge of the city along Delaware Route 202.
Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, p.
In 1926 he incorporated the "Armstrong Seadrome Development Company", of Wilmington, Delaware.
Edward Tatnall (1782–1856) was a miller and railroad executive based in Wilmington, Delaware.
Among his most acclaimed works are the Joie de Danse in the Portman San Francisco hotel and the 1980 Holocaust Memorial at Freedom Plaza in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 1964, he began his investment career, joining the Brittingham family-controlled NYSE member firm in Wilmington, Delaware, where he eventually rose to the position of Director of Research.
Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18, 1949 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a French journalist and author.
Then in 1971, he won at the Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware, by sinking his approach shot on the final hole with a nine-iron for an eagle two.
A comedy in three acts, the play was staged at the Wilmington, Delaware Opera House.
Gregory Normal School was the first legal school admitting African-American students in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Several Lowrie cousins, excluded from military service because they were free men of color (also called free blacks), had been conscripted to help build Fort Fisher, near Wilmington, North Carolina.
Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 489.
The six districts, which corresponded with old judicial organizations, were: Edenton, New Bern, Wilmington, Halifax, Salisbury, and Hillsborough.
Previously, Jordan was Vice President and General Counsel for the Corporation Service Company from 1998-2002 in Wilmington, Delaware.
Mahlon Betts (1795–1867) was a carpenter, railroad car builder, shipwright, businessman, banker, and legislator who helped found three of Wilmington, Delaware's major manufacturing enterprises: the Harlan and Hollingsworth Company, the Pusey and Jones Company, and the Betts Machine Company.
Newkirk spent much of the 1830s leading efforts to raise money for and then build a rail line from Philadelphia south to the cities of Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore.
The eastern parts of the district are characterized as suburbs of Philadelphia and of Wilmington, Delaware.
A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Peter Ruckman is a son of Colonel John Hamilton Ruckman (1888–1966) and a grandson of General John Wilson Ruckman (1858–1921).
In 1838, the PW&B built the first permanent bridge here to complete the first direct rail link from Philadelphia to Wilmington, Delaware, and Baltimore, Maryland.
She began her legal career as an attorney for the Trust Department of the Bank of Delaware in Wilmington, Delaware from 1962 to 1963.
Thomas Lea (1757-1794), a member of a prominent flour milling family in Wilmington, Delaware.
US 421 begins at Fort Fisher and heads through North Carolina's southeastern beaches to Wilmington.
Wilmington Grammar School for Girls, WGSG (Previously known as the Grammar School for Girls Wilmington) is a grammar school with academy status in Wilmington, Kent, England.
There are three secondary schools within the parish: Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (WGSB), whose students wear blue blazers, white shirts, grey trousers and different ties for each house within the school (these colours are red, green, white, black and purple); Wilmington Grammar School for Girls (WGSG), where the uniforms are maroon; and the mixed-sex Wilmington Academy (formerly Wilmington Hall), whose pupils wear black blazers.
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Wilmington is perhaps most famous for being the childhood home of Mick Jagger, lead singer with the Rolling Stones.
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Keith Richards, the band's guitarist, attended Dartford Technical School for Boys (now Wilmington Grammar) in the village.
In 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War, Banning and Benjamin Wilson gave the federal government 60 acres of land to build Drum Barracks to protect the nascent Los Angeles harbor from Confederate attack.
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The Port of Los Angeles district of Wilmington was included in the 1784 Spanish land grant of Rancho San Pedro.
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Drum Barracks Civil War Museum – U.S. Army headquarters for Southern California and the Arizona territory during the Civil War.
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Points of interest include the U.S. Army headquarters for Southern California and the Arizona territory during the Civil War.
Electrified operation was extended to Newark and beyond to Washington, D.C. on February 10, 1935.
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20 February - The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that a British sloop outside of Wilmington, North Carolina seized one sloop sailing from Philadelphia and one sloop sailing from Saint Christopher on the charge of carrying official documents without stamps.
One of the outstanding ferry missions accomplished by the original Squadron at Wilmington came in April 1943, when four PT-26s were delivered from Hagerstown, Maryland, to DeWinton, Alberta, Canada, a distance of more than 2,500 miles.
Currently serves as an analyst for "Full Court Press," a high school basketball highlight show on WWAY NewsChannel 3 in Wilmington, NC.
In January 2012, two hedge fund creditors, Trilogy Portfolio Co. and Canyon Value Realization Fund LP, in a loan with Brookfield, filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court in Wilmington asking that the court restrain Brookfield's attempt to acquire the Kerzner International properties from closing.
In March 2008, several residents in Wilmington, Delaware reported receiving telemarketing calls during the early morning hours, when the caller had apparently spoofed the Caller ID to evoke the 1982 Tommy Tutone song 867-5309/Jenny.
During the Revolutionary War, the British maintained a garrison at Fort Johnson near Wilmington.
Centreville is now known primarily for being the location of Du Pont family estates, as well as several other wealthy business families from nearby Wilmington, and the home of Governor Jack Markell.
It operates 16 routes, including service from Brattleboro to Bennington, Wilmington to Mount Snow, Wilmington to Readsboro, three routes for the elderly or disabled, and nine routes during the winter season around Mount Snow Resort.
Eligibility for membership is extended to employees of the State of Delaware; anyone who lives, works or worships in Georgetown, Milford, Newark, Wilmington and the West Dover area, and over 200 select employee groups.
He graduated from Brandywine High School, where he served as president of both his class and the band, in the suburbs of Wilmington.
EMC did not have a manufacturing plant ready to build the unit, so it was assembled by Bethlehem Steel of Wilmington, Delaware.
In the 1830s the region entered a boom period and began shipping coal by the Pennsylvania Canal, and by the 1840s even down the Lehigh Canal to Allentown, Philadelphia, Trenton, Wilmington, New York City, and other east coast cities and ports via the connecting engineering works of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company such as the upper Lehigh Canal, the Ashley Planes and the early Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad, along with other railroads that flocked to or were born in the area.
The First Battle of Fort Fisher, was a siege fought from December 23–27, 1864, was a failed attempt by Union forces to capture the fort guarding Wilmington, North Carolina, the South's last major port on the Atlantic Ocean.
Thorogood was born on February 24, 1950 and was raised in Naamans Manor, a neighborhood in suburban Wilmington, Delaware, where his father worked for DuPont.
Paul M. Hodgson Vocational-Technical High School is a public school in Newark, Delaware and is among four high schools within the New Castle County Vocational-Technical School District, which includes Delcastle Technical High School in Newport, Howard High School of Technology in Wilmington, and St. Georges Technical High School in St. Georges.
Hollywood of the East (Informally: Hollywood East) are terms which refer to the film industry of Wilmington, North Carolina and South Eastern North Carolina in general.
Only three 1720 systems were ever built: one for the Amoco oil refinery in Whiting, Indiana; one for the Socal oil refinery in El Segundo, California; and one for E. I. du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware.
Born in Clarksville, Ohio, McKechnie studied for two years at Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, (1880-82) before entering Princeton University (AB, 1886), which he followed with two years at the Columbia School of Mines, New York City.
Additionally, LAPPA is actively involved in supporting and promoting the surrounding communities of San Pedro and Wilmington.
Hasson grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she attended Cape Fear Academy.
Upon his death, Governor Jack Markell ordered flags in Wilmington and New Castle County lowered in honor of the longtime civil rights leader.
The first national tallgrass prairie ever designated in the U.S. and the largest conservation site in the Chicago Wilderness region, it is located on the site of the former Joliet Army Ammunition Plant between the towns Elwood, Manhattan and Wilmington in northeastern Illinois.
Constructed nearly fifty years ago, Interstate 40 (I-40) stretches from Wilmington, North Carolina to Barstow, California.
Banning was born in Wilmington, Delaware, the seventh of 11 children to John Alford Banning (1790–1851) and Elizabeth Lowber (1792–1861).
North Carolina International Port, an expansion of the Port of Wilmington facility near Southport, North Carolina, USA
Before joining the National Security News Service in 1991, he worked for CNN’s Special Assignment Unit, the Wilmington News Journal, and prominent journalist Jack Anderson.
While at Pennsylvania Steel, Felton also served as a director of several railroads, including the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company, the Northern Pacific Railway, and the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad.
Star-News, the daily newspaper in Wilmington, North Carolina
His works are in the permanent collections of the )National Portrait Gallery Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Delaware, West Chester University in West Chester, Pa., the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa..
Rodgers played high school football at Banning High School in Wilmington, California, where he was teammates with Jamelle Holieway, Leroy Holt, Bob Whitfield, Courtney Hall, Mark Tucker, Ed Lalau, and Marvin Pollard.
He was the son of Major Griffith McRee, a veteran of the American Revolution, and the daughter of Dr. John Fergus of Wilmington.
1978's Wilmington 10—USA 10,000 examined the impact of racism and the short-comings of the criminal justice system by examining the history of the nine black men and one white woman who became known as the "Wilmington Ten."
WJBR-FM, an FM radio station licensed to Wilmington, Delaware
WSFX-TV, a television station (channel 30) licensed to Wilmington, North Carolina, United States