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WILMINGTON – Thumb through any local historian’s personal library and you’re likely to find a dog-eared, well-worn copy of Beverly Tetterton’s book, “Wilmington: Lost but Not Forgotten.” A guide to the built history that defined Wilmington but fell victim to its progress and time, the book is an essential text on this region from its most essential historical voice of the last quarter century. As the former special collections librarian and chief of the New Hanover County Library’s North Carolina Room, Tetterton has brought history to the masses in a way her predecessors didn’t. The likes of celebrated historians James Sprunt and Louis T. Moore preserved the Cape Fear’s stories in written accounts that have served as the backbone of local research for 100 years. ....