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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MT_robert-ruark_Southport-NC.html
1915-1965. Columnist and author. His 1957 novel The Old Man and the Boy based on childhood visits with grandparents 1 block W.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MP_map-of-the-first-100-lots_Southport-NC.html
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 lot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MN_josiah-martin_Southport-NC.html
Last royal governor of North Carolina, 1771-75. Fearing capture, in June 1775 he sought refuge here. Fled offshore to HMS Cruizer in July.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2MB_fort-johnston_Southport-NC.html
Built, 1748-54; burned by Whigs, 1775; rebuilt by U.S. government, 1794-1809. Only the officers quarters remain.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LX_fort-johnston_Southport-NC.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LP_fort-johnston_Southport-NC.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2LO_mrs-jessie-stevens-taylor_Southport-NC.html
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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2HB_moores-camp_Fayetteville-NC.html
Prior to the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, forces of Gen. James Moore, Whig commander camped, Feb.15~21,1776, 1 ½ miles northeast.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM26A_edmundson-fox-memorial_Hertford-NC.html
Near this spot William Edmundson, an English Friend, held in May 1672, the first religious service on record in Carolina.
Six months later, George Fox, Founder of the Religious Society of Friends also visited this section and held meetings amo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25F_quaker-activity_Hertford-NC.html
In 1672, missionaries William Edmundson and George Fox, founder of Society of Friends, in America, held religious meetings in this area.