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Most of the SCRR files were created by Susie Carson, her students and other members of the Society. The files contain a mixture of documents, newspaper clippings, family genealogy tables and handwritten notes made by Miss Susie and others. If you would like to add information to these files, please contact us at scrr2014@gmail.com.
African American Lives on the Lower Cape Fear River, Early 19th and 20th Century LINK
African American Education LINK
Colored Citizens League - Call for New School (1949) LINK
Agriculture LINK
Amusements LINK
Architecture of Southport (book) LINK
Army and Navy Club
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Art History
Local Concerts - Cabinet #1
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #1 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #2 LINK
The Way It Was Photos VIEW
Bald Head Island
General LINK
Deed and Abstracts LINK
Newspaper clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Bellamy Mansion LINK
Bicentennial (Brunswick County) LINK
Bicentennial (Southport) LINK
Bicentennial Quilt LINK
Blockade Runners LINK Boarding House and Hotels LINK
Boiling Spring LakesLINK
Bolivia Airplane Crash
Aircraft Accident Report LINK
State Port Pilot Coverage LINK
Bowensville - Cabinet #1
Brunswick County
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
History by Lawrence Lee LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Brunswick County Community College LINK
Brunswick County Confederate Veterans Association - Cabinet
Brunswick County Court Term 1792 LINK
Brunswick County Courthouse LINK
Brunswick County Fair LINK
Brunswick Co. PhysiciansLINK
Brunswick County Libraries
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
General #3 LINK
History of the G.V. Barbee, Sr. Library LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Brunswick County Marriage Bonds LINK
Brunswick County Reports/Articles LINK
Brunswick County Schools
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Brunswick County Training School LINK1 LINK2 LINK3
Brunswick Town
General LINK
General #2 LINK
General #3 LINK
History by Franda Pedlow LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Reports/Articles LINK
Camp Sapona
General LINK
Presentation by Scott Len (2015) LINK
Rosters (1936-1937)LINK
Sandspur (Camp Newsletters) LINK
Cape Fear Country 1731 (Pennsylvania Gazette) LINK
Cape Fear Early Settlements LINK
Cape Fear Lightship and Light Tower LINK
Cape Fear Region LINK
Cape Fear River Atlas LINK
Cape Fear Native Americans LINK
Cape Fear River Pilots
General LINK
The Way It Was VIEW
Cape Fear River Pilotage Minutes LINK
Caroon Crab Company LINK
Cemeteries Committee LINK
Cemeteries - Old Smithville #1 LINK
Cemeteries - Old Smithville #2 LINK
Cemeteries - Other LINK
Cemetery - Beave Dam LINK
Cemetery - Swain Family LINK
Cemetery Census (Brunswick County) LINK
Charleston Earthquake LINK
Charlestowne LINK
Churches
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Bethel Church Southport LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
City of Houston (shipwreck) LINK
Civil War
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Reports/Articles LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Community Building
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Coronet Band LINK
Diaries, Scrapbooks, Speeches LINK
Diligence
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Early Explorations/Settlements
General LINK
Reports/Articles LINK
Everetts - Smithville's First Family of Medicine LINK Fishing and Shrimping
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Fort Caswell
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Way It Was VIEW
Fort Caswell Resort LINK
Fort Fisher
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Fort Johnston
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Founders Day LINK
Fourth of July
General LINK
Fourth of July Program (1967) LINK
Fourth of July Program (1977) LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Scrapbook: Part1 (Connie Ledgett) LINK
Part2 (Connie Ledgett) LINK
Part3 (Connie Ledgett) LINK
Franklin Square Park
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Frying Pan Lightship LINK
Fugitives (Payne and Turner) 1938 LINK
Garrison Bridge LINK
Gause Landing LINK
JOHN D.GILL (Ship)
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Presentation by Tim Terman (2016) LINK
YouTube Presentation by Liz Fuller (2022) VIEW
Crew Folders LINK
Great Depression
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Green Swamp
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings #1 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #2 LINK
Half Hell LINK
Historic Preservation Committee (1999)
History Tours - Cabinet #2
Holidays LINK
Hood Building
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Jabbertown Road - Presentation by Donnie Joyner LINK
Jeanes Teachers - Presentation by Alexis Gore Graves (2016) LINK
Lighthouses
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
General #3 LINK
General #4 LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Lockwood Folly LINK
Mack's Café LINK
Maritime - Reports/Articles LINK
Maritime Museum
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Moore's Creek LINK
Menhaden Fishing
General LINK
Menhaden Fishing Video (1936) LINK
The Men All Singing by John Frye LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Southport(Georgetown)Fish Scrap and Oil Co. VIEW
Military - Reports/Articles LINK
Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Monument to Lost Pilots LINK
Naval Stores LINK
North Carolina
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
General #3 LINK
General #4 LINK
History course outline LINK
North Carolina Battleship
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Charles Paty Jr. Oral History LINK
Oak Island
General LINK
History of the G.V. Barbee, Sr. Library LINK
History of Oak Island, State Port Pilot, Spring 1995, 71 Pages LINK
Newspaper Clippings #1 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #2 LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Presentation by Wolf Furstenau (2015) LINK
Oak Island Range Lights LINK
Oak Island Coast Guard Station LINK
Old Brunswick County Jail
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Sheriff Gray Scrapbook LINK
Old Smithville Burying Ground
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Olde Southport Village Shoppes LINK
Oliver's Grill LINK
Orton Plantation
Presentation (2000) LINK
Story of Orton Plantation (1958) LINK
Personalities
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Newspaper Clippings #1 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #2 LINK
Pirates LINK
Plantations LINK
Plaque House Listing LINK
Platt House LINK
Poems/Songs
General LINK
Reports/Articles LINK
Porches LINK
Potts, Joshua Memorial LINK
Quarantine Station
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Race and Gender LINK
Railroad
General LINK
WB&S VIEW
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Recipes (historical) LINK
Reconstruction LINK
Revolution (Play)
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Script LINK
Music LINK
Roads and Bridges VIEW
Robin's Nest (at the SCRR)
Rosenwald Schools presentation-Donnie Joyner LINK
Shallotte LINK
Smithville LINK
Southport Boat Harbor LINK
Southport Businesses
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos #1 VIEW
The Way It Was photos #2 VIEW
Southport Celebrations
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Southport Commercial Association(1900-1911) PART1 PART2
Southport City
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Newspaper Clippings #1 LINK Newspaper Clippings #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #3 LINK
Southport Fire and Rescue Department
General LINK
Model T Fire Truck (1922) LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Southport Garden Club LINK
Southport Historical Society
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Southport in 1940s
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Southport Marina LINK Southport Memories LINK
Southport Memorabilia LINK
Southport Ordinances LINK
Southport Parks LINK
Southport Reports/Articles LINK
Southport Schools
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was - Buildings VIEW
The Way It Was - Classes VIEW
The Way It Was - Activities VIEW
The Way It Was - Students VIEW
Southport High School Yearbook (1922) LINK
Southport Trees
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Southport Woman's Club LINK
Steamers
General
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Storms - Hurricane Hazel
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Storms - Not Hurricane Hazel
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Sunnyside LINK
Transportation LINK
U.S. Coast Guard
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
U.S. Lifesaving Service
Oak Island Station LINK U.S. Postal Service
General LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
USO (Community Building)
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
USS North Carolina
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Charles Paty Jr Oral History LINK
Walden Creek LINK
War of 1812 (Brunswick County Men) Cabinet #3
Way It Was Index 1967-1979 LINK
Whittlers Bench LINK1 LINK2 VIEW
World War II
General #1 LINK
General #2 LINK
General #3 LINK
The Way It Was photos VIEW
Newspaper Clippings #1 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #2 LINK
Newspaper Clippings #3 LINK
Newspaper Clippings (SPP 1940s) LINK
JOHN D.GILL (Ship)
General LINK
Newspaper Clippings LINK
Photo VIEW
Presentation by Tim Terman (2016) LINK
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