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Fort Johnston Photograph Collection


Fort Johnston was located at the present town of Southport, in Brunswick County. The fort was built from 1748-1764 and named for Gov. Gabriel Johnston. It was burned by Whigs in 1775 and rebuilt from 1794-1809. The fort was seized by Confederate forces in 1861.The collection contains oversize photographic negatives of plans of Fort Johnston from 1767 to 1865.

Title

Fort Johnston Photograph Collection

Collection Number

PhC.62.1

Date(s)

1767 - 1865

Language

English

Physical Description
6.0 item(s)
Includes photographic negatives, including 4 copies of one (the Collet Plan of Fort Johnston, 1767). The negatives range in size from 9 x 12 to 18 x 28 1/2 inches.
Abstract

Fort Johnston was located at the present town of Southport, in Brunswick County. The fort was built from 1748-1764 and named for Gov. Gabriel Johnston. It was burned by Whigs in 1775 and rebuilt from 1794-1809. The fort was seized by Confederate forces in 1861.

The collection contains oversize photographic negatives of plans of Fort Johnston from 1767 to 1865.

Physical Location

For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives.

Creator

United States. Army. Corp of Engineers.

Repository

State Archives of North Carolina


The collection is arranged chronologically and placed in a map folder in a map case on floor 2A.


Available for research.


Copyright is retained by the authors of these materials, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law (Title 17 US Code). Individual researchers are responsible for using these materials in conformance with copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.


Processed by Stephen E. Massengill, February, 1996

Encoded by Dietra Stanley

Encoding updated by Aaron Cusick, January, 2012


Fort Johnston was located at the present town of Southport, in Brunswick County. The fort was built from 1748-1764 and named for Gov. Gabriel Johnston. It was burned by Whigs in 1775 and rebuilt from 1794-1809. The fort was seized by Confederate forces in 1861.


[Identification of item], PhC.62.1, Fort Johnston Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC, USA.


The negatives were donated to the State Archives in January, 1992 by Richard Kimmel, Department of Army, U. S. Army Engineer District, Corps of Engineers, P. 0. Box 1890, Wilmington, N. C. 28402-1890. They were accessioned by the Archives in March, 1996.


Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS)  http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov.


The collection contains oversize photographic negatives of plans of Fort Johnston, in present day Southport, North Carolina from 1767 to 1865. In 1992 these negatives were entrusted to Wilson Angley of the Research Branch, North Carolina Division of Historical Resources, by archaeologist Richard Kimmel of the Wilmington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Negatives were to be used in compiling a documentary research report on Fort Johnston, and were later to be placed in the iconographic collection of the North Carolina State Archives for permanent safekeeping.


  • Kimmel, Richard.
  • Architecture--Designs and plans.
  • Fort Johnston (Southport, N.C.)

Box: 62.1  
1. John Collett, "Plan of Johnston Fort at Cape Fear", .
1767

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2. Captain Bruff, "Fort Johnston and Part of the Town of Smithville", .
1802

4145
3. Captain Bruff, "Fort Johnston, N.C."
1802

Scope and Content

Presumably a companion map to #2 above.

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4. Joseph G. Swift, "A Plan of Land Battery, Barracks, and Other Buildings Belonging to the United States at Fort Johnston and in the Town of Smithville, North Carolina", .
1811

4147
5. Major Bonssin[?], "Fort Johnston at Smithville on the Cape Fear River", .
1820

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6. C. B. Comstock, "Fort Johnston, Smithville, N.C. Evacuated January 16th, 1865. Taken Possession of by the Naval and Military Forces, Jan. 17th, 1865", .
1865