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Living History: The Stamp Act Resistance

Join us at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic site as we travel back in time to February 1766 as tensions are growing in the lower Cape Fear regarding the dreaded stamp act. Visitors can expect to see and interact with interpreters portraying key players of the stamp at resistance in Brunswick Town. Two lectures will be taking place throughout the day. John Moseley from the North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport will be discussing the events leading up to the resistance in Brunswick at 10am and Hunter Ingram from the Burgwin-Wright will be discussing the course of the events in February 1766 in Brunswick at 1pm. Activities for kids will include making tricorn hats and painting toy soldiers.
This is a free event for all ages.

8884 Saint Phillips Rd SE, Winnabow, NC 28479

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Travel back in time to February 1766