WILMINGTON –– Only a handful of sound-dwelling bygones remain, hugging the city’s crawling marshes. Evidence of the aristocratic, 18th-to-19th-century summer homes is scarce, threatened by the elements and anthropogenic forces of modern development pressure. RELATED: Masonboro Sound Historic District: An ‘oasis of extraordinary beauty’ threatened by clear-cutting development Where Greenville Sound Road dead-ends emerges Shandy Hall, … Continue reading 19th century sound home to be demolished and replaced, neighbors decry plan as ‘sacrilegious’