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Southport did not develop as a town until the late 18th century. Before that it contained only small settlements and fishermen's cottages. Most of the listed buildings are located to the north of the present town centre and consist mainly of small houses, many of them in a single storey, rendered or roughcast, and with thatched or slated roofs ...
Southport Historic District is a national historic district located at Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 161 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object. Over half of the structures in the historic district date from the 1885-1905 period.
The Southport Historic District in the town of Fairfield, Connecticut is a 225-acre (91 ha) area historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It preserves a portion of the modern neighborhood and former borough of Southport, Connecticut. Since the British burnt almost all of Southport's structures in ...
There have been settlements in the area now comprising Southport since the Domesday Book, and some parts of the town have names of Viking origin. [12] The earliest recorded human activity in the region was during the Middle Stone Age when mesolithic hunter-gatherers were attracted by the abundant red deer and elk populations, as well as the availability of fish, shellfish, and woodland.
Southport is recognised as the central business district of the City of Gold Coast. It has the city's largest area of office space at 103,818 square metres (1,117,490 sq ft). In the past, Southport was the central entertainment location of the Gold Coast. In current times it is set apart from the normal tourist hub of the Gold Coast.
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Perhaps it could belong in a new section on the interaction of Southport with its surrounding areas, from a number of angles: economy, society, geography, language etc. BTW - Wikipedia encourages those who edit pages to do so through a Wikipedia account. Countersubject 12:04, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Tony Roberts — Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country To 1900, [3] Reviews: [4] [5] Finalists: Marge Duminski — Southport Northern Territory 1869–2002 (Historical Society of the Northern Territory, 2005) Claire Henty-Gebert — Paint Me Black; Pearl Ogden — People of the Victoria River Region: An Album; 2005; Winner