By Professor William B. Gould IV

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Market Street in downtown Wilmington, N.C., 1855.
This view of Market Street in the heart of downtown Wilmington would have been familiar to William B. Gould as a young man in 1850's. (Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, p. 201, 1855, Courtesy of New Hanover County Public Library)