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(includes “The Campaign,” “The Massacre” and “The Aftermath”)
With the help of seven renowned guests, the Unearthing 1898 series examines, dissects and faces the horrors of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre. Detailing the campaign that led a white supremacist mob to kill untold numbers of African-American residents, it is arguably the most important story in Wilmington’s history, not just for its bigoted savagery but also for the wide-reaching regression it brought to a city that found progression and the possibility of parity after the Civil War. It is proof that one story and even one day in the Cape Fear can have ripple effects for so many others. In this case, it also changed everything.
WILMINGTON – Thumb through any local historian’s personal library and you’re likely to find a dog-eared, well-worn copy of Beverly Tetterton’s book, “Wilmington: Lost but Not Forgotten.”
A guide to the built history that defined Wilmington but fell victim to its progress and time, the book is an essential text on this region from its most essential historical voice of the last quarter century.
As the former special collections librarian and chief of the New Hanover County Library’s North Carolina Room, Tetterton has brought history to the masses in a way her predecessors didn’t. The likes of celebrated historians James Sprunt and Louis T. Moore preserved the Cape Fear’s stories in written accounts that have served as the backbone of local research for 100 years.