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Historical Markers and War Memorials on the Cape Fear Coast Region

 
By Charles Keller, March 29, 2018
Obverse side view looking out to shoals
1 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Cape Fear and Frying Pan Shoals —
2 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Cape Fear Lighthouse Foundation 1903–1958 —
3 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Captain Charlie’s Station — Named for Charles Swan —
4 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Confederate Blockade Runner Ella —
5 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Fort Holmes, 1863-1865 Batteries No. 1 and No. 2 —
6 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Fort Holmes, 1863-1865 Battery Holmes —
7 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Fort Holmes, 1863-1865 Battery No. 4 —
8 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Fort Holmes, 1863-1865 Encampment Site —
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9 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Generator House — Built 1903 —
10 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Guarding the Confederacy Lifeline — Why Put a Fort on Bald Head? —
11 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Revolutionary War Fort —
12 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bald Head Island — Union Blockading Ship U.S.S. Peterhoff —
13 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Belville — D-25 — Alfred Moore —
14 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Belville — DDD-2 — Fort Anderson —
15 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Belville — D-3 — Orton —
16 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Belville — D-24 — Robert Howe —
17 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Belville — D-4 — Stamp Act —
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18 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Boiling Spring Lakes — D-25 — Alfred Moore — 1755-1810 —
19 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Boiling Spring Lakes — D-4 — Stamp Act —
20 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Bolivia — Brunswick County War Veterans Memorial —
21 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Brunswick Town State Historic Site — Russelborough —
22 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Brunswick Town State Historic Site — D-82 — Russellborough —
23 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Calabash — D-79 — Boundary House —
24 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Calabash — D-30 — First Post Road —
25 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Carolina Shores — D-29 — South Carolina / North Carolina —
26 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell — A Timeline of Fort Caswell —
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27 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell — Battery Bagley —
28 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell — Battery Madison —
29 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell — Battery Shipp —
30 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell — Fort Caswell —
31 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell — Fort Caswell in the Civil War —
32 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Caswell Beach, Fort Caswell — Guns of Fort Caswell During the Civil War —
33 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Leland — D-85 — Benjamin Smith — 1756-1826 —
34 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Oak Island — D-62 — Fort Caswell —
35 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Oak Island — D-109 — Hurricane Hazel —
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36 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Old Town — D-48 — Charles Town —
37 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Shallotte — Shallotte —
38 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Shallotte — D-70 — Washington’s Southern Tour —
39 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Smithville — D-14 — Arthur Dobbs — 1689–1765 —
40 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Smithville — D-54 — Brunswick —
41 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Smithville — D-16 — Spanish Attack —
42 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — (Map of the First 100 Lots) —
43 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — D-66 — Bald Head Lighthouse —
44 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Catalino Tingzon —
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45 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Deep Water Point 1812-1814 — Encampment Site —
46 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — D-8 — Fort Caswell — Reported missing
47 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Fort Johnston —
48 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Fort Johnston — Guardian of the Cape Fear River — Confederate Lifeline —
49 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — D-11 — Fort Johnston —
50 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Franklin Square — “The Grove” —
51 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Indian Trail Tree — Keziah Memorial Park — William Barnum Keziah, 1885–1957, “The Rovin’ Reporter” —
52 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — D-89 — Josiah Martin —
53 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Memorial to North Carolina Militia —
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54 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Mrs. Jessie Stevens Taylor —
55 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Old Jail —
56 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Railroad & Religion on Rhett Street —
57 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Robert C. Ruark —
58 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — D 24 — Robert Howe — 1732-1786 —
59 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — D-93 — Robert Ruark — 1915 - 1965 —
60 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Smithville Burying Ground —
61 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — Southport’s First Fire Alarm —
62 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Southport — D-110 — Stede Bonnet — 1688–1718 —
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63 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Sunset Beach — Honor America's Veterans — Sunset Beach, North Carolina —
64 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — 32-Pounder Rifled Cannon —
65 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — A Home at Brunswick: Hepburn-Reonolds Site —
66 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — 12 — Brunswick Town — Revolutionary America 1775-1783 —
67 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — Brunswick Town State Historic Site —
68 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — Capt. William Dry and the Spanish Attack —
69 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — Colonel Maurice Moore —
70 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — D-92 — Daniel L. Russell — 1845 – 1908 —
71 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — Fort Anderson —
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72 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — Fort Anderson — One Shovelful at a Time — Confederate Lifeline —
73 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — D-119 — Fort Anderson —
74 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — D-73 — John LaPierre —
75 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — Margaret McCorkall: A Brunswick Woman —
76 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — D-53 — Orton Plantation —
77 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — D-55 — St. Philips Church —
78 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — St. Phillips Church Interior —
79 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — The Big Guns Of Fort Anderson —
80 ► North Carolina, Brunswick County, Winnabow — Yankee Catchers & Infernal Machines —
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81 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Battlefield of Sugar Loaf —
82 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Blockade Running —
83 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Civil War Fortifications — Half Moon Battery —
84 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — For a little while it was a lively and interesting fight —
85 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Fort Fisher Army Air Base Hutment — 1942 —
86 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — I hope we can hold Wilmington —
87 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Joseph Ryder Lewis Jr. Civil War Park —
88 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Loughlin Cottage — 1916 —
89 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Shipwreck Site —
90 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Such parts of the Sugar Loaf line... —
91 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — Sugar Loaf Line — Circa 1865 —
92 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — The General Beauregard —
93 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — The Joy Lee Apartment Building and Annex —
94 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — To close the port of Wilmington... —
95 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Carolina Beach — We are strongly entrenched here... —
96 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Castle Hayne — D-22 — Early Drawbridge —
97 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Castle Hayne — D-90 — James Innes — ca. 1700–1759 —
98 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Kure Beach — "[We] rushed forward like tempest, through the stockade and up the parapet" — Dr. James Mowris, 117th New York Infantry —
99 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Kure Beach — "How Grand a Fame It Watches Over": The Fort Fisher Monument —
100 ► North Carolina, New Hanover County, Kure Beach — "These are North Carolina's pets." — Maj. Gen. W.H.C. Whiting referring to the North Carolina Junior Reserves —

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