Southport, North Carolina Southport, North Carolina Southport is positioned in North Carolina Southport - Southport Location inside the state of North Carolina State North Carolina Southport is a town/city in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States, near the mouth of the Cape Fear River.
Southport is the locale of the North Carolina Fourth of July Festival, which attracts 40,000 to 50,000 visitors annually.
In response to these attacks, Governor Gabriel Johnston in 1744 appointed a committee to select the best locale to construct a fort for the defense of the Cape Fear River region.
Further, increasingly bold Spanish privateer raids led the North Carolina General Assembly to authorize the assembly of "Johnston's Fort" in April 1745, which would come to be known as Fort Johnston.
The governor of South Carolina agreed to lend ten small cannons for the fort, and the legislature, in spring 1748, appropriated 2,000 pounds for assembly costs, and assembly finally began.
Southport was established as the town of Smithville in 1792. Joshua Potts had requested the formation of a town adjoining to Fort Johnston, and the North Carolina General Assembly formed a commission of five men to administer its founding.
The town was titled after Benjamin Smith, a colonel in the Continental Army amid the Revolutionary War and later governor of North Carolina. Smithville interval as a fishing village and through supporting military activity.
Smithville was the governmental center of county of Brunswick County from 1808 to 1887. In an accomplishment to promote the town as a primary shipping port, Smithville was retitled Southport in 1887. Smithville Township, in which Southport lies, and other small-town landmarks, such as the cemetery, retain the Smithville name.
Southport is positioned in southeastern Brunswick County at 33 55 28 N 78 1 14 W (33.924484, -78.020513) on the northwest bank of the tidal Cape Fear River, approximately 2 miles (3 km) inland from the Atlantic Ocean.
North Carolina Highway 211 enters the town/city from the north as North Howe Street and travels south to one block north of the waterfront, where it turns east as East Moore Street, dominant northeast to the town/city limits, where it turns east again as Ferry Road on its way to the end of the Southport Fort Fisher ferry athwart the Cape Fear River.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km2), of which 3.7 square miles (9.7 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.73%, is water. Climate data for Southport, North Carolina (1981 2010 normals), In the city, the populace was spread out with 17.9% under the age of 18, 5.4% from 18 to 24, 21.0% from 25 to 44, 31.0% from 45 to 64, and 24.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
An award-winning weekly newspaper, The State Port Pilot, is positioned in the town/city and serves as the origin of small-town knowledge for its residents.
The Southport Marina is a enhance small boat harbor owned by the North Carolina State Ports Authority.
The marina made statewide news when it was announced that the State Ports Authority would put it up for sale, causing an uproar among the town's residents, who were concerned that evolution was spoiling the town's "fishing village charm".
Former North Carolina Governor Mike Easley, himself a resident of Southport, quickly reversed the decision and declared that the State Ports Authority would continue to own the marina.
The city's government pursued a purchase of the marina to preserve it from a future sale to private developers, but the state retained ownership of the marina and allowed a lease for the facility to a new ownership group, Southport Marina, Inc., which has invested in momentous repairs and upgrades to the facility.
The town/city of Southport has been the locale for many TV series such as Revenge and Under the Dome.
Films which have been made in Southport include I Know What You Did Last Summer, Summer Catch, Domestic Disturbance, Crimes of the Heart, Mary and Martha, Nights in Rodanthe, A Walk to Remember and Safe Haven. The town/city is serviced by its long-time award-winning journal The State Port Pilot.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Southport city, North Carolina".
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