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n Hewlett Crockett’s
“Between the Creeks,” the seminal
history of the area, she states that
these lands were the location of
Finian Plantation,William Hooper’s
former estate. Hooper, a signer of the
Declaration of Independence, was a
Boston attorney sent to Wilmington
to create a North Carolina foothold
for the American Revolution. In the
woods behind his plantation was the
state’s first Masonic Lodge, named
Soloman’s Lodge.
Hooper’s lands were acquired by
the Parsley and Peschau families on
which Jane Parsley and husband
Captain Henry Russell Savage built
the Wigwam, their summer home in
1873, which remained in their family
until 1941.
“If you go down Masonboro
Sound Road you find simple lines
and a hip roof,” says homeowner
Richard Johnson from the lawn of his
rambling new home. This is where
Johnson and his wife, Carole, knew
they wanted to be. They bought two
pieces of adjacent property in 2002.
Three years later in 2005, the couple
and their children moved into a
The dock reaches toward navigable
water with Masonboro Island in the
distance. Opposite, hanging beds and
wicker rockers line porches overlooking
the sound.
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