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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 ...
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 Conservancy (organization for preservation and restoration of historic properties in Southport) The Southport Globe (a website focused on the community) The Southport Picture File (a collection of 800 historical photos compiled by historian V. Louise Higgins. Housed at Pequot Library and accessible online.)
Southport is a city in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Its population was 3,971 as of the 2020 census . [ 4 ] The current mayor, Rich Alt, was elected to a two-year term in November 2023.
The Price Creek Lighthouse, also known as the Price's Creek Lighthouse, is a structure located near Southport, North Carolina. It was one of two range lights at Price Creek in a series of lights to guide ships from Cape Fear to Wilmington, North Carolina. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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.
Pictures have been released of the armoury of weapons teenage killer Axel Rudakubana stored in his bedroom. When police raided his home after he carried out the attack in Southport on July 29 ...
It became the Southport Dispensary in 1823. [1] After the existing premises became too small, it moved to a new purpose-built building designed by Thomas Withnell in the Gothic Revival style in Seabank Road in 1853. [2] Its name changed again when it was extended and became the Southport Convalescent Hospital and Sea-Bathing Hospital in 1862. [1]