Brunswick County Historical Society Newsletters (1961 - 2006)

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Sept 1961

A Brief Sketch of James Haskell 

May 1962

Reconstructing the Brunswick Town Houses

The Tory Wars in North Carolina

Nov.1963

Buttons from the ruins of Brunswick Town

Account of the Cape Fear

Aug. 1963

Spanish Attack

Feb.1963

Colonial clothing from Brunswick Town

The Boundary House

Feb. 1964

The Hills of Brunswick

Blockade Running by Thomas Mann Thompson

May 1964

Maurice Moore's Estate

History of the Zion Methodist Church

Oct. 1964

Famous Fortifications at Brunswick Town

Nov  1964

Excavation of the Courthouse at Brunswick Town

May 1965

The Natural History of Smith's Island

Aug. 1965

A Brief History of Smith's Island

May 1966

The Royal Governors Mansion at Brunswick Town

Colonel James Rhett, Nemesis of the Pirates

Nov. 1966

Excavation of the kitchen at Russellborough

1800 Brunswick County Census

Feb. 1967

St. Philips Church at BrunswickTown

May 1967

Interpreting the ruins of Russellborough

Visits to North Carolina C. 1802

Aug. 1967

William Tryon's Windmill at Russellborough 

1800 Brunswick County Census (Cont.)

Nov. 1967

A wine cooler in the cellar at Russellborough

Index to the Brunswick County 1800 Census

Feb. 1968

The Port Inspector's Brand

Remarks by Carlisle H. Humelsing (11/1967)

Aug.1968

Excavation of the James Espy House Ruin in Brunswick

1968 Society Membership 

Nov. 1968

Excavation at the Leach-Jobson House

The Lower Cape Fear (1861-1865)

Feb. 1969

Health in Brunswick Town

May 1969

Francis Asbury in Brunswick County

Aug. 1969

Reverend Jon LaPierre

Old Brunswick, Russellborough and the Moore Family

Nov. 1969

Colonial Bible Boxes

Brunswick County Court Minutes - 1782


ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES   (1970- 1979)

Feb 1970

Rhenish "Blsuwerk" in the American Colonies

Aug. 1970

The Steamboats of the Cape Fear

Nov. 1970

Brunswick Town: 1970 A Year in Retrospect

Feb. 1971

Hickory Hall

Society Membership

State Port Pilot Editorial - Where is the Historian?

May 1971

Rice Planting in Brunswick: A Golden Age of Agriculture

Aug 1971

Brunswick County Largest Producer of Naval Stores

Nov 1971

Benjamin Smith: A Noble Native of Brunswick County

Feb 1972

A Causeway Over Eagle Island

May 1972

Private Salt Works in Brunswick County

Aug 1972

Frying Pan Lightship Project

Nov 1972

1815 Tax List of Brunswick County

Feb 1973

Storm on the Cape Fear (Tax Stamp Revolt)

May 1973

History of Southport

Aug 1973

Berg-Woodside Home in Southport

Nov. 1973

Tourists at the White Cliffs (1662-1663)

Feb. 1974

Post Offices and Mail Service in Brunswick County

May 1974

Cape Fear Quarantine Station

Nov. 1974

Settlement of the Cape Fear 

Feb. 1975

Celebrating the Bicentennial in Brunswick County

Oct. 1975

The North Carolina Fourth of July Celebration at Souhtport

May 1976

1976 Celebration at St. Philips in Brunswick Town

Nov. 1976

Brunswick County Bicentennial Celebration

Oral History - Margaret Swan Hood

Feb. 1979

A Brief History of Leland

Aug. 1979

How Electricity Came to Brunswick County

Nov. 1979

Permanent Settlement Town of Brunswick

Armed Resistance to the Stamp Act

The Spanish Attack

Colonial NC: A History


ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES   (1980- 1989)  

Feb 1980

Revolutionary Incidents

May 1980

Where Brunswick Came From

The Soldiers in Beaufort

The Spanish Alarm 1747-48

Public Education in Brunswick County

Aug 1980

Early Baptist Churches of Brunswick County

Old Shallotte Baptist Church

Nov 1980

Minutes of the Brunswick County Commissioners 1878- 89

Feb 1981

Smithville to Southport 1888

Public Education in North Carolina

May1981

A Brief History of the Brunswick County Historical Society

Aug 1981

Blockade Running Off Brunswick County

Nov 1981

Colonel George W. Gillette

Smithville Named Southport

Feb 1982

Historical Marker Presented

The Building of Fort Caswell

The First Shallotte

May 1982

A Review of Research on Bolivia

Aug 1982

Turpentine and Rice in Brunswick County

Salt in Colonial Brunswick

Nov 1982

Brunswick Resistance to the Stamp Act

Feb 1983 

Salt in Brunswick County

May 1983

Things Remembered as a Child - Berlyn Sellers Lancaster

Aug 1983

Physicians in Brunswick County

Nov 1983

Things Remembered as a Child - Part 2

Feb 1984

Launching of Elizabeth II

May 1984

Things Remembered as a Child - Part 3

Aug 1984

Why Smithville Change into Southport

Nov. 1984

Nathanial Rice

Current Concerns

Feb 1985

Benjamin Smith 

Sale of Orton PlantatioN

May 1985

Daniel Lindsay Russell Governor from Winnabow

Aug 1985

Nineteenth Century DOT

Nov 1985 

Livestock Marks

Aug 1986

John Green's Swamp

Nov 1986

Nathanial Rice

Nov 1987

Early Plantations - Names and Locations

May 1988

Lockwood Folly Bridges (1733 - 1837

Feb 1989

Notes from the President

May 1989

Dr. Ben McNeill - Country Physician

May 1989

Bell Family of Brunswick County

Aug 1989

To Turpentine Distillers

Nov 1989

A Note from the President


ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES   (1990- 1999)

Feb 1990

Murder Trial (1777)

May 1990

Brunswick County 1883-84

Nov 1990

1860 Agricultural Schedule for Lockwood Folly Township

Historic Marker Honors Governor Daniel Russell

May 1991

French Settlement in the Jungle of Brunswick County Visited

Nov 1991

Thomas Conolly's Diary of the Fall of the Confederacy

Feb 1992

Genealogy

Valley of the Scots - Malcolm Fowler

Aug 1992

Importance of Family Bibles

Nov1992

Index to NC Newspapers (1784-89)

May 1993

The Old Hanover Series

Aug 1993

Daniel Russell and the Belville Plantation

Aug 1995

From the President

May 1996

The Calabash Mystique

Mrs. Amanda High - Matriarch of Calabash

Cheryl High - Child of Calabash

Calabash Family Cemeteries


Feb 1997

Christmas at Fort Fisher and Wilmington

First Prohibition Law in NC

Dual Fought for Fair Lady

Brunswick County Commissioners Minutes (1878)

May 1997

James W. Albright Day

On the March in Brunswick

The War Years

Genealogy

Aug 1997

Thomas Clemmons

James W. Albright's Civil War Diary - Part 2

Lois Hardison's Civil War Ancestors

Nov 1997

Who Owns Supply? (1946)

James Albright's Civil War Diary

Fort Anderson

Colonial Fort and Liberty Pond

Feb 1998

Bishop Francis Asbury (1804)

Tales of Old Southport

Col. Fred Olds Visits Southport (1918)

Stuart House - Rice Cakes

Samll Cemeteries

Edwards Family History

May 1998

Green Swamp tidbits

Army Pilot Lands in the Green Swamp

History of SE Green Swamp

Arthur Little

Buffaloes of the Green Swamp

Concord Methodist Church Cemetery

Maie Hobbs's Civil War Ancestors

Nov 1998

World War I Brunswick Inductees

Monthly Pay for Civil War Soldiers

Shallotte

Bolivia

NC Revolutionary War Army Accounts

Feb 1999

Mary Elizabeth Bensel Stuart

Zion church History

Andrews Chapel Methodist Church

Philadelphia Wesleyan Church

Little Macedonia Mission Baptist Church

New Hope Presbyterian Church

Kendel Chapel AME Church

Civil War on the Homefront

Southern Claims Division

May 1999

County Home

Reginald Turner letter to JW Ruark (1933)

Shallotte School Faculty (1932-33)

School News (1935)

Aug 1999

Robert Harrell, Fort Fisher Hermit

General Robert Howe

Wreck of the Blockade Runner Kate (1862)

Nov 1999

William Tryon letter of 1769

Twilight Motel - Shallotte Landmark

Reminiscences of Old Smithville

Honor Roll of River Pilots


ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES (2000 - 2005)

Jan 2000

World War II - mounted beach patrol

Makatoka Logging Camp

Italian Family

Brown Family Bible

Naval Stores

Feb 2000

Mississippi Cemetery - John Gibbs (1879), Margaret Ginns (1865)

Miscellaneous Death Records - Brunswick County

Ayers S. White

Ellen Bellamy and the Bellamy Mansion

Theodocia Vashti Stalling Sellers

May 2000

Lighthouses of the Lower Cape Fear

Court Houses of Brunswick County

The Goodman Homestead

Aug 2000

The Beginning and Development of Holden Beach

Wilmington, Brunswick and Southern Railroad

Ghost Ships (from World War II) of the Brunswick River Basin

Mrs. J.H. Clemmons

Veterans of World War I Charter

Nov 2000

History of Leland

Duty on the Frying Pan (lightship)

Rev. Charles Woodmason Swindled

Judge Alfred Moore

Brunswick County Business (1867-1868)

Feb 2001

Brunswick County Business (1869)

Benjamin Smith

The Loyalists in North Carolina 

Whittler's Bench in Southport

Bill Reaves Obituary

A New Geography of North Carolina

Lennon Cemetery, Monroe-Fullwood Cemetery

Anna Clemmons asks for help to vote

Descendants of John Frink, Sr.

May 2001

Steamboats on Cape Fear Waterways

Justice to a Negro Man in North Carolina (1853)

Naval Stores - Curse of the State

Jesse Clemmons - Green Swamp caretaker

World War II farmers

Brunswick County Business(1872)

Duel - Maurice Moore and Benjamin Smith

Aug 2001

Longwood, North Carolina

1893 Hurricane

Heroic Southport Lifesaving Crew

Bear mauls man in Brunswick County (1962)

Nov 2001

Dorman Mercer - World War I veteran

Town Creek in history

Education important in 1908

Brunswick County Business (1877 - 1878)

May 2002

Excerpts from the Southport Leader newspaper (1891 - 1892)

Feb 2002

Meeting Announcement

Membership

Organization Details

Old Smithville

Shallotte River Association

County Boat Owners

Home Sweet Home, but not forgotten

Harry R. Sullivan succumbs to injury

Business Directory - 1883-84

First Teachers at Waccamaw High School - 1927

Carolina's Campaign

Aug 2002

The Southport Leader - Lockwood Folly News (1890)

American Revolution - Government in a Free Land by Lawrence Lee

Galloway's Coast Guard Company - roster

Joseph Silas Clemmons - Tales still told

Nov 2002

Civil War dispatches concerning ships lost off Holden Beach and Lockwood Folly Inlet

Feb 2003

Holden Beach History by Marjorie McGivern

1937 Holden fishing lease agreement

Childhood memories by Lottie Ludlum

Victorian human hair jewelry

May 2003

Churches provided conduct codes in 1920s and 30s

J,H, White Obituary

Brunswick sheriff reports still raids (1957)

Clemmons marriages (women)

Green Swamp - Brunswick's Botanical Garden

Shark caught at Southport dock (1938)

Excerpts State Port Pilot (1938)

Aug 2003

McEwen's Civil War letters

Lancaster Cemetery

Trapping in the Green Swamp

Lemuel Phelps - first ride on a train (1904)

1960s nightlife in South Brunswick islands

Belvidere Plantation for sale (1831)

Nov 2003

Camp Branch Baptist Church

Supply high school planned (1921)

Brunswick County chronology (1850 - 1939)

Ruby Holden (age 6) obituary (1919

Feb 2004

Gause Landing History

Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell in 1862-63

George W. Swain obituary (1890)

Aug 2004

Brunswick County News (November 15, 1917)

Brunswick County Business (1896)

L. Jewel - McKeithan Cemetery (Bolivia)

Nov 2004

Sarah Russ by Gwen Clausey (1784 - 1811)

Cox's Landing Cemetery

Galloway Cemetery

Letter describing Brunswick County (1854)

Clemmons marriages

Edward W. Taylor obituary (1909)

Edgar Bascom Sellers (1970)

Feb 2005

Armstrong cannon

Civil War - Fall of Ft. Fisher

Civil War - map making

Wilmington couple arrested (1903)

Capt. W. T. Sellers obituary (1905)

Gilbert Family Cemetery

May 2005

Brunswick County History

Mullets and sweet taters

Naval Stores - Turpentine Plantations

Henry B, Green bio

Abraham Galloway

Early Republican Party

Daniel Rowell

20th Regiment North Carolina Infantry

Brunswick County property owners (1725 - 1819)

Aug 2005

Home libraries in the colonies

The blockade runner Vesta

Lighthouses of the Lower Cape Fear

Nov 2005

Stamp Act Rebellion

Fishing to Development - Clifton Family

Hog killing day

C. W. Stewart and Elmer Stewart executed (1924)

Sleeping sickness victim - Charles B. Cumbie

Property tax letter

Feb 2006

Southport Standard newspaper (May 31, 1900)

Blockade Running - Thomas Mann Thompson

Kate Stuart

Civil War - Captain Benjamin Jacobs - Senior Reserves

Civil War - Brunswick Guards

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