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Brunswick Town became an excavation site for Cape Fear history during the 20th century. The Brunswick Town Historic District contains the ruins of 18th-century commercial and residential colonial homes, St Philip's Church , Fort Anderson , and Russellborough, the former governor's mansion.
The site belongs to the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, which operates the area as Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site. The visitor center features displays and an audiovisual program about both the colonial port Brunswick Town and the Civil War period Fort Anderson.
The 2,250-acre (910 ha) district is located in the Smithville Township of Brunswick County, between Wilmington and Southport. In September 1978, the Brunswick Town Historic District was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [2]
Moseley visited the site again with someone from the State Historic Preservation Office and Jim McKee, site manager at the Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site. Schorr Johnson ...
These places in Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties have seen changes -- one of them being their name 6 Wilmington-area places that once had a different name Skip to main content
Charging 25 cents for an entrance fee, the family raised $1,000 in a week. From that point on, the Sprunts decided to keep the garden open to the public. In 1954, the Sprunt family donated 114.5 acres (46.3 ha) of the Orton Plantation to establish the Brunswick Town State Historic Site.
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St. Philip's Church, Brunswick Town, is a ruined parish church in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. The Anglican church was erected in 1768 and destroyed in 1776. [ 2 ] The ruins are located beside the Cape Fear River in the Brunswick Town Historic District , along with Fort Anderson , Russelborough, and the nearby Orton Plantation .