We interrupt our series on the police station to bring you a story in keeping with coming of St. Patrick’s Day this week. The influence of the Irish immigrant population on American law enforcement cannot be understated. Fleeing extreme poverty
Read more150 Years of Stories: The Police Station (Part II)
After two centuries of being shuffled about the private residences of the constables and chiefs and sharing space with other town departments, the Wilmington Police Department finally acquired their first actual police station in 1930. Soon to be eliminated, was
Read more150 Years of Stories: The Police Station (Part I)
When the Wilmington Memorial Public Safety Building was dedicated in October of 2001, it represented a more than two-hundred-and-fifty-year evolution in the design and concept of the police station. Upon the incorporation of Wilmington in 1730, the townsfolk appointed Giles
Read more150 Years of Stories: The WPD Ambulance Service
The Wilmington Police Department Ambulance Service operated from 1934 until 1956. Obtaining an ambulance was initially the endeavor of Chief Harry Ainsworth and several concerned townspeople whereas no such service had existed previously. In fact, the police department’s first patrol
Read more150 Years of Stories: Rough on Rats – A Sinister Plot
The 1939 play Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring and the later film adaptation by Frank Capra and starring Cary Grant, played out in real life in Wilmington more than a half century before. In the dark comedy, two
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