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Southport Historical Society’s Annual Holiday Tour of Homes will be held Saturday, Dec. 14 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased southporthistoricalsociety.org.
The Southport Picture File (a collection of 800 historical photos compiled by historian V. Louise Higgins. Housed at Pequot Library and accessible online.) Living in Southport, Conn. (New York Times photo collection) Brilvitch, Charles. 1977. Walking Through History. The Seaports of Black Rock and Southport. Fairfield Historical Society.
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.
It is located in the Southport Historic District. The original courthouse was built in Brunswick Town 1729–1731. [ 3 ] This courthouse had served New Hanover County, which included Brunswick, until Brunswick was formed in 1764.
A bright future? In 1990, Archer Daniels Midland acquired property in Southport, which included Price’s Creek Lighthouse. Brunswick County tax records show the company owns two tracts of land ...
Many of the Newport Historical Society tour guides are retired from full-time work. There are also students in their early 20s and younger professionals. There are professionals in the middle of ...
website, operated by the Southport Historical Society Old City Jail: Mount Airy: Surry: Foothills: Media: Re-creation of "The Courthouse" from the Andy Griffith Show [29] Old Fort Railroad Museum: Old Fort: McDowell: Western: Railroad: Historic depot with railroad displays and visitor center [77] [78] Old Jail Museum: Taylorsville: Alexander ...
The earliest recorded event in Southport's history was "The Great Swamp Fight" or "Fairfield Swamp Fight" of July 1637 (not to be confused with the later Great Swamp Fight of King Philip's War), an episode of the Pequot War in which English colonial forces led by John Mason and Roger Ludlow vanquished a band of 80 to 100 Pequot Indians who had ...