Brunswick County Historical Society Newsletters (1961 - 2006)
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BCHS Newsletters
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1970 - 1979 Newsletters LINK
1980 - 1989 Newsletters LINK
1990 - 1999 Newsletters LINK
2000 - 2006 Newsletters LINK
A Brief Sketch of James HaskellÂ
Reconstructing the Brunswick Town Houses
The Tory Wars in North Carolina
Buttons from the ruins of Brunswick Town
Account of the Cape Fear
Spanish Attack
Colonial clothing from Brunswick Town
The Boundary House
The Hills of Brunswick
Blockade Running by Thomas Mann Thompson
Maurice Moore's Estate
History of the Zion Methodist Church
Famous Fortifications at Brunswick Town
Excavation of the Courthouse at Brunswick Town
The Natural History of Smith's Island
A Brief History of Smith's Island
The Royal Governors Mansion at Brunswick Town
Colonel James Rhett, Nemesis of the Pirates
Excavation of the kitchen at Russellborough
1800 Brunswick County Census
St. Philips Church at BrunswickTown
Interpreting the ruins of Russellborough
Visits to North Carolina C. 1802
William Tryon's Windmill at RussellboroughÂ
1800 Brunswick County Census (Cont.)
A wine cooler in the cellar at Russellborough
Index to the Brunswick County 1800 Census
The Port Inspector's Brand
Remarks by Carlisle H. Humelsing (11/1967)
Excavation of the James Espy House Ruin in Brunswick
1968 Society MembershipÂ
Excavation at the Leach-Jobson House
The Lower Cape Fear (1861-1865)
Health in Brunswick Town
Francis Asbury in Brunswick County
Reverend Jon LaPierre
Old Brunswick, Russellborough and the Moore Family
Nov. 1969
Colonial Bible Boxes
Brunswick County Court Minutes - 1782
ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES Â (1970- 1979)
Rhenish "Blsuwerk" in the American Colonies
The Steamboats of the Cape Fear
Brunswick Town: 1970 A Year in Retrospect
Hickory Hall
Society Membership
State Port Pilot Editorial - Where is the Historian?
Rice Planting in Brunswick: A Golden Age of Agriculture
Brunswick County Largest Producer of Naval Stores
Benjamin Smith: A Noble Native of Brunswick County
A Causeway Over Eagle Island
Private Salt Works in Brunswick County
Frying Pan Lightship Project
1815 Tax List of Brunswick County
Storm on the Cape Fear (Tax Stamp Revolt)
History of Southport
Berg-Woodside Home in Southport
Tourists at the White Cliffs (1662-1663)
Post Offices and Mail Service in Brunswick County
Cape Fear Quarantine Station
Settlement of the Cape FearÂ
Celebrating the Bicentennial in Brunswick County
The North Carolina Fourth of July Celebration at Souhtport
1976 Celebration at St. Philips in Brunswick Town
Brunswick County Bicentennial Celebration
Oral History - Margaret Swan Hood
A Brief History of Leland
How Electricity Came to Brunswick County
Permanent Settlement Town of Brunswick
Armed Resistance to the Stamp Act
The Spanish Attack
Colonial NC: A History
ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES Â (1980- 1989)Â Â
Revolutionary Incidents
Where Brunswick Came From
The Soldiers in Beaufort
The Spanish Alarm 1747-48
Public Education in Brunswick County
Early Baptist Churches of Brunswick County
Old Shallotte Baptist Church
Minutes of the Brunswick County Commissioners 1878- 89
Smithville to Southport 1888
Public Education in North Carolina
A Brief History of the Brunswick County Historical Society
Blockade Running Off Brunswick County
Colonel George W. Gillette
Smithville Named Southport
Historical Marker Presented
The Building of Fort Caswell
The First Shallotte
A Review of Research on Bolivia
Turpentine and Rice in Brunswick County
Salt in Colonial Brunswick
Brunswick Resistance to the Stamp Act
Salt in Brunswick County
Things Remembered as a Child - Berlyn Sellers Lancaster
Physicians in Brunswick County
Things Remembered as a Child - Part 2
Launching of Elizabeth II
Things Remembered as a Child - Part 3
Why Smithville Change into Southport
Nathanial Rice
Current Concerns
Benjamin SmithÂ
Sale of Orton PlantatioN
Daniel Lindsay Russell Governor from Winnabow
Nineteenth Century DOT
Livestock Marks
John Green's Swamp
Nathanial Rice
Early Plantations - Names and Locations
Lockwood Folly Bridges (1733 - 1837
Notes from the President
Dr. Ben McNeill - Country Physician
Bell Family of Brunswick County
To Turpentine Distillers
A Note from the President
ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES Â (1990- 1999)
Murder Trial (1777)
Brunswick County 1883-84
1860 Agricultural Schedule for Lockwood Folly Township
Historic Marker Honors Governor Daniel Russell
French Settlement in the Jungle of Brunswick County Visited
Thomas Conolly's Diary of the Fall of the Confederacy
Genealogy
Valley of the Scots - Malcolm Fowler
Importance of Family Bibles
Index to NC Newspapers (1784-89)
The Old Hanover Series
Daniel Russell and the Belville Plantation
From the President
The Calabash Mystique
Mrs. Amanda High - Matriarch of Calabash
Cheryl High - Child of Calabash
Calabash Family Cemeteries
Christmas at Fort Fisher and Wilmington
First Prohibition Law in NC
Dual Fought for Fair Lady
Brunswick County Commissioners Minutes (1878)
James W. Albright Day
On the March in Brunswick
The War Years
Genealogy
Thomas Clemmons
James W. Albright's Civil War Diary - Part 2
Lois Hardison's Civil War Ancestors
Who Owns Supply? (1946)
James Albright's Civil War Diary
Fort Anderson
Colonial Fort and Liberty Pond
Bishop Francis Asbury (1804)
Tales of Old Southport
Col. Fred Olds Visits Southport (1918)
Stuart House - Rice Cakes
Samll Cemeteries
Edwards Family History
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
World War I Brunswick Inductees
Monthly Pay for Civil War Soldiers
Shallotte
Bolivia
NC Revolutionary War Army Accounts
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
County Home
Reginald Turner letter to JW Ruark (1933)
Shallotte School Faculty (1932-33)
School News (1935)
Robert Harrell, Fort Fisher Hermit
General Robert Howe
Wreck of the Blockade Runner Kate (1862)
William Tryon letter of 1769
Twilight Motel - Shallotte Landmark
Reminiscences of Old Smithville
Honor Roll of River Pilots
ISSUE/HISTORICAL ARTICLES (2000 - 2005)
World War II - mounted beach patrol
Makatoka Logging Camp
Italian Family
Brown Family Bible
Naval Stores
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
Lighthouses of the Lower Cape Fear
Court Houses of Brunswick County
The Goodman Homestead
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
History of Leland
Duty on the Frying Pan (lightship)
Rev. Charles Woodmason Swindled
Judge Alfred Moore
Brunswick County Business (1867-1868)
Brunswick County Business (1869)
Benjamin Smith
The Loyalists in North CarolinaÂ
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.
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
Longwood, North Carolina
1893 Hurricane
Heroic Southport Lifesaving Crew
Bear mauls man in Brunswick County (1962)
Dorman Mercer - World War I veteran
Town Creek in history
Education important in 1908
Brunswick County Business (1877 - 1878)
Excerpts from the Southport Leader newspaper (1891 - 1892)
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
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
Civil War dispatches concerning ships lost off Holden Beach and Lockwood Folly Inlet
Holden Beach History by Marjorie McGivern
1937 Holden fishing lease agreement
Childhood memories by Lottie Ludlum
Victorian human hair jewelry
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)
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)
Camp Branch Baptist Church
Supply high school planned (1921)
Brunswick County chronology (1850 - 1939)
Ruby Holden (age 6) obituary (1919
Gause Landing History
Colonel Alfred Moore Waddell in 1862-63
George W. Swain obituary (1890)
Brunswick County News (November 15, 1917)
Brunswick County Business (1896)
L. Jewel - McKeithan Cemetery (Bolivia)
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)
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
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)
Home libraries in the colonies
The blockade runner Vesta
Lighthouses of the Lower Cape Fear
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
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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