Southport Historical Society Blog

Desiree Bridge, one of our Board Members, works at the Bald Head Island Conservancy. She told us recently about a [...]

Juli Newton is the youngest child of Art Newton, Southport’s first commercial artist. Born and raised in Southport, she has [...]

We are pleased to announce that we sold 150 bricks this year thanks to the efforts of the Brick team: [...]

Robert W.  Surridge, D. Ed., has been selected to serve on the Advisory Board of the Federation of North Carolina [...]

Southport Historical Society was honored to be awarded the 2021 Albert Ray Newsom Award for Excellence in Local History from [...]

We were so pleased to receive  a Thank you note from the Wilmington-Cape Fear Pilots Association that we just had [...]

Living Voices of the Past returned in 2021 when ten Southport historical characters came to life at the Old Smithville Burying Ground. Coordinated by Dawn Drabble.

  The Remembrance of the Lost Pilots of Smithville and the 100th Anniversary of the Wilmington Cape Fear River Pilots [...]

Ten of Southport's River Pilots were lost in two severe storrms in the 1870s. The grieving town erected a monument so that those who came after would know of their heroism.