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Wilmington has been around for nearly 300 years, but most of its neighborhoods are nowhere near that old. The names for the Soda Pop and Cargo districts, for example, were coined just this century.

The best way to get around Wilmington is by car. Although the city is very pedestrian-friendly in certain places – including its Riverwalk, its Historic District and nearby beaches like ...

11, 2014. Castle Street can be found on some of the earliest maps of Wilmington, but Dry Pond, the historically working-class neighborhood just to the south of Castle between Third and 16th ...

Some of the neighborhood's history is quite dark. It was the epicenter of Wilmington's white supremacist-led 1898 coup and massacre. Castle Street can be found on some of the earliest maps of ...