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They're freshly paved in some cases, or have bricks that have been replaced, but the names of many downtown Wilmington streets are quite old. Well over 200 years old, in fact. Maps drawn in the ...

WILMINGTON — Laurel Avenue is but a blip on the map, a bracket linking Molloy Road to Parker Street. But maps only say so much. The street is lined with seven homes. Two of them hold five ...

Water Street was created in the 1780s, and a map from 1810 in Tony P. Wrenn's book "Wilmington, North Carolina: An Architectural and Historical Portrait," shows Surry Street. At least one of ...