Plan of Johnston Fort at Cape Fear

PUBLIC "-//North Carolina Division of Historical Resources::North Carolina State Archives//TEXT (US::NcD::[P.C.62.1]::Fort Johnston Photograph Collection)//EN" "phc_fort_johnston.xml" Fort Johnston Photograph Collection Processed by: Stephen E. Massengill; machine-readable finding aid created by: Dietra Stanley North Carolina Division of Historical Resources

North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncdcr.gov URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/

Machine-readable finding aid derived from paper by means of scanning and OCR; OCR file edited for typographical errors before encoding. Microsoft Word. Date of source: 1767 to 1865 Finding aid completed February 28, 1996, by Stephen E. Massengill; Finding aid encoded by Dietra Stanley, North Carolina State Archives, November 12, 2003 Description is in English. Fort Johnston Photograph Collection North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 Contact Information Division of Historical Resources North Carolina State Archives 4614 Mail Service Center Raleigh, North Carolina 27699-4614 USA Phone: 919/807-7310 Fax: 919/733-1354 Email: archives@ncdcr.gov URL: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/archives/arch/default.htm Processed by Stephen E. Massengill Date Completed February 28, 1996 Encoded by Dietra Stanley Date Encoded November 12, 2003

Descriptive Summary Fort Johnston Photograph Collection United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. 6 items Includes photographic negatives, including 4 copies of one (the Collet Plan of Fort Johnston, 1767). The negatives range in size from 9 x 12 to 18 x 28 1/2 inches. North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources Information for Users Access Restrictions

Available for research.

Usage Restrictions

Preferred Citation

[P.C.62.1] Fort Johnston Photograph Collection, North Carolina State Archives, Division of Historical Resources, Office of Archives and History.

Acquisition Information

The negatives were donated to the State Archives in January, 1992 by Richard Kimmel, Department of Army, U. S. Army Engineer District, Corps of Engineers, P. 0. Box 1890, Wilmington, N. C. 28402-1890. They were accessioned by the Archives in March, 1996.

Processing Information

Finding aid completed by Stephen E. Massengill

Completed February 28, 1996

Collection Overview

The collection contains oversize photographic negatives of plans of Fort Johnston, in present day Southport, North Carolina from 1767 to 1865. In 1992 these negatives were entrusted to Wilson Angley of the Research Branch, North Carolina Division of Historical Resources, by archaeologist Richard Kimmel of the Wilmington District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Negatives were to be used in compiling a documentary research report on Fort Johnston, and were later to be placed in the iconographic collection of the North Carolina State Archives for permanent safekeeping.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged chronologically and placed in a map folder in a map case on floor 2A.

Online Catalog Headings Fort Johnston (Southport, N.C.) Architecture--Designs and plans. Kimmel, Richard. Container List 62.1 Oversized Photographic Negatives of Fort Johnston in Present Day Southport 1. John Collett, Plan of Johnston Fort at Cape Fear, 1767. 2. Captain Bruff, Fort Johnston and Part of the Town of Smithville, 1802. 3. Captain Bruff, Fort Johnston , N.C., 1802

Presumably a companion map to #2 above.

4. Joseph G. Swift, A Plan of Land Battery, Barracks, and Other Buildings Belonging to the United States at Fort Johnston and in the Town of Smithville, North Carolina , 1811. 5. Major Bonssin[?], Fort Johnston at Smithville on the Cape Fear River, 1820. 6. C. B. Comstock, Fort Johnston, Smithville, N.C. Evacuated January 16th, 1865. Taken Possession of by the Naval and Military Forces, Jan. 17th, 1865, 1865. Related Material:

Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) at http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us