Civil War-Era Wilmington Historic Markers In Need of Repair or Replacement

From the August 20, 2020, Wilmington (NC) Star-News "Photos:  Wilmington-area historic markers  in need of repair."

**  The Thalian Hall / City Hall  highway historic marker on Third Street was blown over and damaged during Hurricane Florence in 2018.  It has been rewritten and  and is waiting to be replaced  when the marker program gets money from the N.C. Department of Transportation.

It read:  "D 49 / THALIAN HALL  CITY HALL  /  Built 1855-58 as city hall and theatre for the Thalian Association (amateur), formed c. 1788."

This was operating during the Civil War.

**  The William W. Loring highway historical marker at Orange and Third streets before it broke off recently, possibly during Hurricane Isaias.

It read:  "D 48 /  WILLIAM W. LORING / Major general in  the Confederate Army, lieut. colonel in the Mexican War, general in the Egyptian Army , 1870-79.  His birthplace was 1 bl. W."

Quite an interesting story about this man.

--Old Secesh