Progress is a contradictory term, one that inherently means an improvement of luxury and an advancement of technology, yet usually at the expense of a community\'s identity, traditions, and history.
Though many buildings survived Civil War skirmishes and Northern occupation during Reconstruction, these same structures did not esCape the plans of ambitious entrepreneurs and thus disappeared from Wilmington\'s landscape, only to be replaced, over time, by shopping plazas and nationally recognizab.
Progress is a contradictory term, one that inherently means an improvement of luxury and an advancement of technology, yet usually at the expense of a community\'s identity, traditions, and history