Cape Fear Unearthed
Summary: 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 persisting legends, historical oddities and mysterious figures that have helped shape its legacy and culture.
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Podcasts:
Wwe take a look at the history of bridges in New Hanover County, both the bridges that exist today, and the bridges that preceded them.
Ideal location: Wilmington film history and the Ideal Cement factory
Century club: Wilmington's 100-year-old businesses
Wilmington goes to the movies: bygone theaters and drive-ins
Historic Wilmington Foundation takes the past into the future
Enduring mystery: The fire that destroyed Hemenway Hall
Members of the Cape Fear Explorers talk about searching for artifacts in Southeastern N.C.
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 and notable queens.
On the 25th anniversary of its closing, we talk about Wilmington rock club The Mad Monk's heyday and its legacy.
Cape Fear Unearthed creator Hunter Ingram says farewell to the series for a new opportunity and introduces his successor as host, John Staton.
The story of the Battle of Forks Road in Wilmington is an important snapshot of the role the U.S. Colored Troops played in a war that would ultimately decide their future, and showed how they were on the frontlines even if that wasn't how history always remembered it.
Capt. William Ellerbrock and his dog, Boss, were in inseparable in Wilmington in 1880 when they became the lone victims of a vicious fire that sealed their fate and solidified their bond in history.
On Dec. 15, 1955, a day known locally as the Black Thursday, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad announced it was ending its century-long relationship with the city, putting an end to an industry that put the region on the map and thousands of its residents to work.
From 1928 to 2012, a 75-foot-tall, 110-foot-wide live oak standing in the former Hilton Park north of downtown Wilmington held the title of the World’s Largest Living Christmas. Over eight decades, the tree would become the epicenter of the Cape Fear's holiday season.
In the third episode of "Unearthing 1898," host Hunter Ingram and guests look at Wilmington in the days and years after Nov. 10, 1898.
