From the Encyclopedia of North Carolina.
This was the smaller of the two Confederate shipyards in Wilmington, North Carolina during the war and the construction site for the ironclad ram CSS Raleigh.
The yard was founded when James Cassidey (1792-1866), a ship's carpenter, bought a waterfront lot at the foot of Church Street on the east bank of the Cape Fear River and by the late 1830s he was operating a shipyard at the site. By 1846, he was advertising a maritime railway.
By 1850, he was repairing and copper-bottoming sailing ships on the west Indies trade.
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
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