Brunswick County Historical Society

Meetings & Events

The First quarter 2025 meeting of the Brunswick County Historical Society will be held on February 10, 7:30 PM, at the Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation Building, 795 Ocean Highway West, Supply, NC.

Our speaker for the February meeting will be Mr. J.D. Lewis and his is topic will be "The Revolutionary War in Our Neck of the Woods."

J.D. Lewis grew up in North Carolina, left home at eighteen seeking fame and fortune (found neither), lived all over America, and returned to the South Carolina lowcountry in 1991. His work expertise is primarily large-scale Program Management in five major industries - Nuclear Power, Petro-Chemical, Information Technology, Mobile Telecommunications, and Aerospace & Defense. He had his own management consulting firm for 30 years with clients that included Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, Orbital Sciences, BellSouth, and many others.

Using his interest in history, Mr. Lewis has published an extensive website about the early history of North Carolina and South Carolina including a genealogy research of his Lewis family line, over 30,000 WebPages, thousands of maps, hundreds of transcribed documents, and hundreds of historical write-up on specific topics. His research into the American Revolution in NC and SC spanned more than eight years, included thousands of primary sources, specifically Federal Pension Applications and contemporary letters and documents, and also included hundreds of secondary sources such as books, articles, maps, etc. This website, including all information on the Revolutionary War in NC and SC is 100% free to the public with zero advertising.

Mr. Lewis has also published a three-volume set of books: "NC Patriots 1775-1783: Their Own Words" in 2012. He has also given detailed presentations of this research at several Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution events in South Carolina and at the Cape Fear Revolutionary War Round Table in Wilmington, NC.

Regular quarterly meetings of BCHS are held the second Monday of February, May, August, and November, 7:30 PM, in the meeting room at:

Brunswick Co. Electric Membership Corp.

795 Ocean Hwy W

Supply, NC 28462