A new exhibit is opening at the Southport Visitor’s Center and Museum. “Life at the Garrison House” will honor the families who lived at the Garrison House from 1935 through 2005. The focal point of the exhibit will be a room that illustrates the life and times of the Mollycheck family who lived in the […]
Join us as Randy Jones, Southport Director of Tourism, presents, “Quarantine Station to Hospital”
Guest speaker Wilbur Jones will talk about WWII Army Captain Henry Bragaw who was the manager at Orton Plantation before he went into the service and lost his life in the war. Bragaw’s mother lived here in Southport until her death. Potluck dinner begins at 6:30 p.m., with the speaker at 7:00 p.m.
Join us as SHS board member, Liz Fuller, presents “Prohibition North Carolina-style”. As both a leader in the prohibition movement and a leader in the manufacture of moonshine, North Carolina has had a long and conflicted relationship with alcohol. As we near the 100th anniversary of the United States' Noble Experiment of Prohibition, Liz will […]
