Tag Archives: Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson

Panel Marks Defeat of the Spanish at Brunswick Town

WINNABOW – Spanish privateers once held this corner of Carolina in the colonial days of King George’s War. Capt. William Dry III commanded local militia that retook the port of Brunswick in September 1748. A wayside exhibit panel “Capt. William Dry and the Spanish Attack” will be unveiled at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State [...]

Archaeologists Find Gun Platform at Ft. Anderson’s Battery B

Video courtesy of WECT TV6 Wilmington, NC

WINNABOW – Archaeological investigations at Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson State Historic Site have discovered a 147 year old wooden gun platform that supported an 11,360 lb. Sea Coast 32-Pounder cannon. The excavations mark the first archaeology to be undertaken at the site in over 40 years and are the [...]