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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.
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 ...
A History of Fort Johnston on the Lower Cape Fear. Southport Historical Society in Association with the Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources. "Fort Johnston". "MyReporter". Boyer, S. S. (1870). John Shaw Billings, United States Surgeon General (ed.).
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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 ...
August 23, 2002 (32 Main St. Newtown: Built c. 1763, a two-and-a-half-story house which hosted officers of French commander Rochambeau's troops in 1781 en route to the Siege of Yorktown, Virginia.
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 ...