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If the average Wilmingtonian did not feel the impact every day, it was largely because city workers had borne the brunt.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2011

The creative spirit, it may be said, was Mr. Joshua T. Heald, an enterprising Wilmingtonian, already a director of the Wilmington and Reading line.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various