The tourists who stay there might not know, but the Holiday Inn at Wrightsville Beach, recently rebranded as Lumina on Wrightsville Beach, a Holiday Inn Resort, sits on the former site of Moore's Inlet. With Ray McAllister, author of "Wrightsville Beach, the Luminous Island," we take a look back at the days when Wrightsville's north end, Shell Island, was actually an island, and when some developers tried to develop a beach for African-Americans during the days of Southern segregation.
Revolution Comes to the Cape Fear
Althea: Queen of the Court
The House Built on Wilmington's First Jail
WASPs, Warships and Wartime Wilmington
Burial Grounds of the Cape Fear
Panic and Plague: The 1918 Spanish Influenza
Wilmington's Trailblazing Women
Highland Charge: Scots in the Cape Fear
BONUS EPISODE: The Fort Anderson Flag
The Bombardment of Fort Anderson
Wrightsville Beach and the Dread God of Fire
The Fateful Fall of Fort Fisher
The Cape Fear Indians
If Ghosts Should Walk in Thalian Hall
The Ghost of General Whiting
Season of the Witch
Ghost on the Water
The Spirits of Poplar Grove
Moonshiners, Bootleggers and the Devil's Brew
The Life and Liberty of Cornelius Harnett
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