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Brunswick County Courthouse

North Carolina, US

Brunswick County Courthouse

The Old Brunswick County Courthouse is an historic former courthouse located at Southport, Brunswick County, North Carolina. It was erected about 1844, and is a plain, two-story, stuccoed brick building three bays wide by seven bays long. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1

979. It is located in the Southport Historic District. The original courthouse was built in Brunswick Town 1729–1731. This courthouse had served New Hanover County, which included Brunswick, until Brunswick was formed in 1764. The building was destroyed by the Great Chesapeake Bay Hurricane of 1769. The General Assembly, meeting in New Bern in 1778, authorized and empowered Brunswick to levy a tax on its inhabitants to construct a new courthouse at a location convenient to its citizens and within two miles of Lockwoods Folly. The Act said "the courts of said county will be held at John Bell's until the County Court House shalI be built." John Bell's plantation had been chosen as the site of the new courthouse, but until it was built it was expected that court business would be conducted in his home if necessary. This was during the time of the American Revolution so progress was slow. Another...

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