| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Belville — D-25 — Alfred Moore |
| | Associate Justice United States Supreme Court, 1799–1804, officer in the Revolution, state Attorney General, Judge. Home was 18¾ mi. S. — Map (db m6419) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Belville — D-14 — Arthur Dobbs |
| | Royal Governor 1754–65, author, member Irish Parliament, promoter of search for Northwest Passage, is buried at Saint Philips Church. — Map (db m6436) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Belville — Fort Anderson |
| | Large Confederate fort stands 13 mi. S. After a strong Union attack it was evacuated Feb. 18, 1865, resulting in the fall of Wilmington. — Map (db m6437) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Belville — D-3 — Orton |
| | Fine colonial home. Built about 1725 by Roger Moore. Later Gov. Benjamin Smith’s home. Stands 16¾ mi. south. — Map (db m6435) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Belville — D-24 — Robert Howe |
| | Major General in the Revolution, commander of the American Army in the South., 1776–78. His home stood 17 miles S. — Map (db m6320) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Belville — D-16 — Spanish Attack |
| | A Spanish expedition captured the town of Brunswick, 1748, during King George’s War, but was soon driven away by the colonial militia. — Map (db m6420) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Belville — D-4 — Stamp Act |
| | Resisted by armed band, Feb., 1766, at Brunswick, where royal governor Tryon lived. Site 18¾ mi. south. — Map (db m6410) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Brunswick Town State Historic Site — Russelborough |
| | Erected by Captain John Russell, Commander of His Britannic Majesty's Sloop of War Scorpion, who gave his name to this residence and tract of fifty-five acres of land adjacent to the town of Brunswick. Subsequently owned and occupied by the British Governor and Commander in Chief,
Arthur Dobbs,
and later conveyed to His Excellency
William Tryon, Governor.
On the 10th of February 1766, this building, known as Tryon's Palace, was surrounded by one hundred and fifty armed men of the Cape . . . — Map (db m22372) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Brunswick Town State Historic Site — D 82 — Russellborough |
| | Home of royal governors Dobbs and Tryon. Site of Stamp Act resistance in 1765. Burned in American Revolution. — Map (db m22197) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Calabash — D-79 — Boundary House |
| | Commissioners met here to run boundary in 1764. Popular stop for colonial travelers. Ruins used to establish present state line in 1928. Located 2¾ mi. S.E. — Map (db m5375) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Calabash — D-30 — First Post Road |
| | The road from New England to Charleston, over which mail was first carried regularly in North Carolina, 1738–39, passed near this spot. — Map (db m6317) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Calabash — D-29 — North Carolina / South Carolina |
| | North Carolina. Colonized, 1585–87, by first English settlers in America; permanently settled c. 1650; first to vote readiness for Independence, Apr. 12, 1776.
South Carolina. Formed in 1712 from pat of Carolina, which was chartered in 1663, it was first settled by the English in 1670. One of the 13 original states. — Map (db m6319) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Oak Island — D-62 — Fort Caswell |
| | Seized by N.C. Militia three months before firing on Fort Sumter. Governor Ellis ordered its return to Federal Authority; three miles east. — Map (db m5834) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Oak Island — D-109 — Hurricane Hazel |
| | Category 4 storm made landfall at Long Beach, October 15, 1954, with winds over 140 mph & 17-foot surge. Nineteen people killed in N.C. — Map (db m5832) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Shallotte — D-70 — Washington’s Southern Tour |
| | President Washington, on April 27, 1791, was a guest at the home of William Gause, Jr., which stood four miles north. — Map (db m16277) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — (Map of the First 100 Lots) |
| | Here on this small bluff overlooking the Cape Fear River, Joshua Potts in the year 1790 envisioned a town surrounding old Fort Johnston. “Braced up by the effects of the salubrious breeze, from the sea,” Joshua Potts laid out the first hundred lots, which were incorporated as the town of Smithville (later to become Southport) in November 1792. Look around you and believe in “Joshua’s Dream.” — Map (db m4792) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Catalino Tingzon |
| | Dedicated to the memory of Catalino Tingzon, interred in Northwood Cemetery, and all Merchant Marine seamen and U.S. Navy Armed Guard on the tanker S.S.John D. Gill torpedoed and sunk off Cape Fear by the German submarine U-158 March 12, 1942. The citizens of Southport cared for the survivors and mourned for those who lost their lives. — Map (db m4950) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — D-8 — Fort Caswell |
| | Named for Gov. Caswell. Begun by U.S. in 1826; seized by N.C. troops, 1861; abandoned by Confederates, 1865. Stands five miles southeast. — Map (db m16331) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Fort Johnston |
| | This tablet was erected May, 1911 by the North Carolina Society of Colonial Dames of America to mark the site of Fort Johnston, the first fort in the Province of North Carolina, built under Act of Assembly of 1745 and completed 1764, and named in honour of Governor Gabriel Johnston. The Patriots of the Cape Fear resisting the execution of the Stamp Act in 1766 forced the spiking of its 24 cannon, the gift of King George II.
The fort was the refuge of Governor Josiah Martin after his flight . . . — Map (db m4754) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Fort Johnston — Guardian of the Cape Fear River |
| | Confederate Lifeline. On January 9, 1861, as secession fever swept the South, an armed body of civilians overwhelmed Fort Johnston’s lone occupant, Ordinance Sgt. James Reilly, and demanded the keys. Reilly quickly surrendered them and received a receipt in return. North Carolina Gov. John W. Ellis, however, on January 11 ordered Fort Johnston and several other strongholds restored to the Federal government. The confederates reoccupied the fort on April 16, after the fall of Fort Sumter, . . . — Map (db m4761) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — D-11 — Fort Johnston |
| | Built, 1748–54; burned by Whigs, 1775; rebuilt by U.S. government, 1794–1809. Only the officers quarters remain. — Map (db m4777) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Franklin Square — “The Grove” |
| | Site for this public park was given to the town of Smithville, which was named in his honor, by Governor Benjamin Smith. His legacy provided that land in this square be used for educational, fraternal, religious and recreational purposes.
Th giant live oaks which canopy Franklin Square are hundreds of years old. “The Four Sisters,” behind the City Hall, have been played by children for many generations. Thousands of camellias and azaleas have been planted to beautify he park, . . . — Map (db m5988) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Indian Trail Tree — Keziah Memorial Park — William Barnum Keziah, 1885–1957, “The Rovin’ Reporter” |
| | This ancient gnarled oak has been estimated to be more than 800 years old. Indians may have bent the young tree to mark the trail to their fishing grounds. The tree took root a second time, thus developing the unusual formation. — Map (db m20366) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — D-89 — Josiah Martin |
| | Last royal governor of North Carolina, 1771–75. Fearing capture, in June 1775 he sought refuge here. Fled offshore to HMS Cruizer in July. — Map (db m4790) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Mrs. Jessie Stevens Taylor |
| | Erected during North Carolina’s Tercentenary to Mrs. Jessie Stevens Taylor, 1879–1961. She loved her God, Country and fellow man. She served here as a Voluntary Weather Observer and Storm Warning Display Woman from 1900 to 1961. — Map (db m4752) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Old Jail |
| | On February 27, 1904, ground was broken for the “new” jail. Contractor A.J. Robbins received the contract with a low bid of $6,738. Its construction is “a concrete foundation with brick walls, laid in 1:6 bond constructed with a six-course belt and little woodwork.” The bond refers to the pattern in which the brick was laid and is visible as you look at the building. Typical of the period, ceilings on both the first and second floors are concrete and molded in a barrel . . . — Map (db m6095) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Railroad & Religion on Rhett Street |
| | Between the Civil War and the construction of the Panama Canal in 1904, local residents and investors desperately sought to surpass Wilmington by building a rail link to the Appalachian coal fields. Smithville would become the first refueling stop between the canal and northern ports. In 1890, a huge coal dock was built at the foot of Rhett Street as a part of that dream. Anticipating becoming the main port, Smithville had its name changed to Southport, the “Port of the South.”
. . . — Map (db m6227) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Robert C. Ruark |
| | 1915–1965, columnist and author. “The Old Man and the Boy,” were youthful rememberances of his material grandfather, Captain Edward Atkins, in this house. — Map (db m4800) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — D-93 — Robert Ruark |
| | 1915–1965. Columnist and author. His 1957 novel The Old Man and the Boy based on childhood visits with grandparents 1 block W. — Map (db m4798) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Smithville Burying Ground |
| | “Nor even this hour shall want its charm / For side-by-side still fondly we’ll keep / And calmly in each others arms / Together linked go down the deep.” —From the marker for Emeline L. Taylor and Major George Taylor who were swept from the deck of the steamer San Francisco, on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1853.
This cemetery has served this community (first as Smithville and later as Southport) since the 18th century It is believed that burials took place here . . . — Map (db m6229) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Southport — Southport’s First Fire Alarm |
| | January 1916. Founded in 1893, the Southport Volunteer Fire Department was officially organized with the election of officers and adoption of a constitution and by laws on 21 January, 1916. Authorized purchase of the city’s first fire alarm bell was made at this organizational meeting. — Map (db m5996) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — D-54 — Brunswick |
| | Founded c. 1725, long a principal port of N.C., site of Spanish attack, 1748, and of Stamp Act resistance, 1766. Later abandoned. Was 2 mi. S.E. — Map (db m6451) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — Brunswick Town State Historic Site |
| | Brunswick Town State Historic Site was established on land donated to the State of North Carolina in December, 1952, by James Laurence Sprunt and his four sons, James Laurence Sprunt, Jr., Kenneth Murchison Sprunt, Samuel Nash Sprunt, and Laurence Gray Sprunt. The 114.5-acre tract, formerly part of Orton Plantation, constitutes the entire site except for 5.25 acres donated by the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina which includes the ruins of Old St. Philips church.
In grateful recognition . . . — Map (db m5535) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — Colonel Maurice Moore |
| | A memorial to Colonel Maurice Moore, gentleman and soldier of the King, who in the year of our lord 1725 founded in a wilderness The Town of Brunswick reserving for the glory of God the tract of land on which was built this parish church of Saint Philip.
Also to the heroes and patriots of the Lower Cape Fear whose brave deeds illustrated its colonial history.
Brunswick was for a time the seat of Royal Government in the Province of North Carolina, and the residence of the . . . — Map (db m6510) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — Fort Anderson |
| | Large Confederate fort stands 2 mi. E. After a strong Union attack it was evacuated Feb. 18, 1865, resulting in the fall of Wilmington. — Map (db m6438) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — Fort Anderson |
| | Begun 1861. Named in honor of General Joseph R. Anderson, then commanding military district.
The Fort, under command of Brig. Gen. Johnson Hagood, suffered a severe bombardment by a Federal fleet and attack by Federal army under Maj. Gen. J. M. Schofield in February, 1865 and was evacuated. — Map (db m6494) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — Fort Anderson — One Shovelful at a Time — Confederate Lifeline |
| | In 1861–1862, Col. William Lamb and Maj. John Hedrick
constructed Fort Anderson, one of several Confederate
strongholds that protected Wilmington, a major blockade-running port. They enlarged Fort St. Philip (for St. Philip’s Anglican Church on your right), an earthen wall with gun emplacements that extended from the ruin to the Cape Fear River and renamed it Fort Anderson. Although Lamb had no engineering experience, he applied to the building of fortifications what engineers had . . . — Map (db m6515) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — D-73 — John LaPierre |
| | Ordained 1707; came to America 1708. Served in many churches in area as missionary of Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1732–1755. — Map (db m6483) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — D-53 — Orton Plantation |
| | House built c. 1725, subsequent additions. Home first of Roger Moore, later of Gov. Benjamin Smith, still later of James Sprunt. ¾ miles east. — Map (db m6448) |
| North Carolina (Brunswick County), Winnabow — D-55 — St. Philips Church |
| | Anglican, built under act of 1751. Graves of Governors Arthur Dobbs and Benjamin Smith and U.S. Justice Alfred Moore. Ruins 2 mi. S.E. — Map (db m6467) |
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