Recommended Reading

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Historic Preservation

• HPC's Wilmington Design Guidelines for Historic Districts and Landmarks

• HWF's Template for Protective Covenants and Easements

• Facing the Future by David Brinkley - an inspiring and well-articulated argument for preserving Wilmington's history.

• A Letter to George:  How to Keep the Preservation Commission Out of Court and Avoid Being Sued by Robert E. Stipe.

• NEW:  City of Wilmington's Policy Governing Appointments to Boards and Commissions

• The Economics of Preservation: A Community Leader's Guide by Donovan D. Rypkema

Wilmington/Cape Fear History

• The Diary of Nicholas W. Schenck:  Reminiscences and family record

• Book:  Wilmington Yesteryear by Robert M. Fales (book) - @library?, (video) - @library?

• Book:  The Lower Cape Fear in Colonial Days by Lawrence Lee - @library? (link not functional?)

• Book:  Stories Old and New of the Cape Fear Region by Louis T. Moore - @library? (link not functional?)

• Book:  Wilmington's 250th Anniversary (1989 Star-News Sunday Supplement) - @library? (link not functional?)

*  Some of these books can be found at the NHC Public Library (cut and paste the Title into keyword search).  The Lower Cape Fear Historical Society also has a number of these for sale.

In the Press

• Profile: Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region in Attache Magazine.

Other:

• City of Wilmington's Online Documents (Budgets, Financial Reports, Schedules, Applications...)

• Transcript of the State of the City Address 2005, given by Mayor Spence Broadhurst, January 18, 2005