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.
Fort Johnston Photograph Collection
PhC.62.1
1767 - 1865
English
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.For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Public Services Branch, North Carolina State Archives.
United States. Army. Corp of Engineers.
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.
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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.
Presumably a companion map to #2 above.