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.

A 60-acre nature preserve park in Wilmington gets its namesake from a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Halyburton Park in Wilmington was named in 1984 after William David Halyburton Jr., a ...

It's not exactly downtown, but the Masonboro Sound National Register Historic District ... Wilmington National Cemetery, the oldest houses in Carolina Heights date to around 1908. Sunset Park ...