Southport Historical Society Awards $2000 to a Graduating South Brunswick High School Senior. 

The Southport Historical Society is proud to announce that Elizabeth Pratt of Southport, NC, was recently honored with the 2020 Susan Sellers Carson scholarship.

This award is given annually to a graduating South Brunswick High School senior based on the merits of an original essay.  Elizabeth’s essay was titled “A History of the River Pilots of the Cape Fear”.  Click the cover page above to download a copy of her essay.

Elizabeth Pratt will attend Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania where she will major in Applied Health with a Pre-Health Professions Concentration. She will receive $2000 over the course of her first two years of study.  The Susan Sellers Carson scholarship was established in 2003. It was named in honor of Miss Susie Carson, co-founder of the Southport Historical Society (SHS). For more than forty years, members of the SHS have worked to collect, preserve, and share the history of Southport. The SHS created this scholarship out of a belief that an understanding of the past is the best foundation for building the future. Since 2003, the Southport Historical Society has awarded $30,000 in scholarships.