Southport
Design is an Internet
marketing firm specializing in providing state of
the art on-line services to firms located in Brunswick
and New Hanover Counties of North Carolina. Our services
include website design, search engine marketing, hosting,
ground and aerial photography and computer support
and networking.
Our
experienced (8 to 16 years) website designers, programmers
and graphic artists will work with your company in
developing an attractive and well balanced website
or in redesigning an outdated website. Our marketing
specialists will analyze your site's visible and behind
the scene content to ensure that it meets the highest
degree of compatibility with the search engines. We
have effectively placed many firms on-line and we
can do the same for yours.
 Here
are some of our proud customers.
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Southport Design is Headquater
in Southport, North Carolina.
Southport is located between wilmington and Myrtle
Beach.
Our
Location couldn't be better. Southport is 5 minutes
from Oak Island and Caswell Beach, 10 minutes from
St James , 15 minutes (via ferry or private boat)
to Bald Head Island, and 20 minutes to Holden Beach
& Ocean Isle. Airports are 30 minutes north and
south, as Southport is equidistant from historic Wilmington,
N.C. (25 minutes north), and the entertainment, dining
and golf capital of the world, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
(40 minutes south). Southport is located in the southern
part of Brunswick County via US Highway 17 to Highways
87 and 211.
Imagine a lazy afternoon spent strolling the beach
in search of the perfect shell, the glimpse of a dolphin
in the water or watching the setting sun melt into
the ocean at twilight. Oak Island can make these images
become a reality. Along 8 miles of pristine shoreline,
this island offers countless opportunities for unwinding.
Guests have a variety of comfortable accommodations,
including motels, roomy condominiums, rustic beachfront
cottages or more modern rental homes. Oak Island is
home to several championship golf courses and free
tennis as well.
The
island provides the total resort experience. Watersports,
golf, miniature golf, a water slide, 3 piers and deep
sea fishing are only a few of the attractions that
make Oak Island a popular but quiet vacation destination,
life on the Island is a balance between the calm seclusion
of the beaches and the easy proximity to the mainland
entertainment and recreation.
There
are many things to do at, and around, this charming
beach community including:
Golf
Oak Island boasts 30 golf courses within 30 minutes!
Watch for Brunswick County to become the golf capital
of the coast. Several area courses include: The Gauntlet,
The Players Course and The Members Course all at St.
James Plantation; the Freddie Couples course; Carolina
National at Winding River Plantation; Lions Paw and
Panther Run at Ocean Ridge Plantation; The Pearl;
Oak Island Golf Course.
Boating,
Fishing, & Beaches
Boating - For both the sail or power enthusiast, the
beautiful Cape Fear and Lockwood Folly Rivers, Intracoastal
Waterway, and the Atlantic Ocean are available for
boaters.
Offshore
- Charter and private boats take you to your prize
catch, including marlin, sailfish, dolphin, king and
spanish mackerel, wahoo, bluefish and more.
Inland
waters - Fishing, crabbing, shrimping and clamming
are abundant in tidal creeks and along the Intracoastal
Waterway.
Southport
Lifestyle
A quaint fishing village on the mouth of the Cape
Fear River, Southport is place you come to visit and
end up never wanting to leave. Beautiful Victorian-style
homes grace the sidewalk-lined streets under huge
sweeping oak trees, hundreds of years old. Cool ocean
breezes keep temperatures mild year round. And Southport’s
midway point between Wilmington and Myrtle Beach make
it close to all of the action, yet with an Accent!
that feels worlds away.
Self-guided walking tours provide a wealth of discovery.
Stroll down Moore Street and visit the many colorful
gift shops, art galleries and antique dealerships.
Stop and rest at Waterfront Park where you may see
huge cargo ships making their way up the Cape Fear
River to the port city of Wilmington. Enjoy our fresh
seafood overlooking the Southport Yacht Basin and
Marina where sailing vessels stop on their way along
the Inter-coastal waterway.
The many historic sites like the old Southport Jail,
St. Philips Episcopal Church and Smithfield cemetery
are all easily accessible on foot. You can also learn
about the colorful history of Southport and real life
legends of the famous pirate Stede Bonnet at the Southport
Maritime Museum. The Southport Visitor Center provides
maps, brochures and self-guided walking tours.
Southport
History
Originally incorporated in 1792 as Smithville, its
progressive citizens changed its name to Southport
in 1887 in hopes of attracting a port. The port went
further upstream to the City of Wilmington but this
entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in the City
today. The historic charm of this community will captivate
you as you walk under a canopy of 200 year old live
oak trees, or walk past majestic Victorian century
homes which once belonged to river pilots or maybe
even a pirate or two. Southport is one of few City’s
with a true downtown. Banks, antique & collectible
shops, professional offices line about a five block
area in the downtown commercial district. Just outside
this district is one of the finest medical care facilities
in our region, J.A. Dosher Memorial Hospital. A visit
to our area is not complete without a day or two of
walking through these antique and specialty shops,
stopping along the way for a leisurely lunch at the
Shrimp House 2 along the waterfront, taking a pedicab
historic tour of the City, watching transoceanic vessels
pass by at Waterfront Park and visiting the NC Maritime
Museum in Southport The City of Southport also offers
sailors, anglers and boaters a safe haven through
the Southport Marina, Old Yacht Basin and City Pier.
The
first Spanish explorers to the region arrived in 1521,
but it was further up the Cape Fear River that the
first settlement, Brunswick Town was formed in the
mid-1700s. Between 1745 and 1754 Fort Johnson was
built as quarantine service for incoming seamen and
to protect settlements further up the river. Located
at the mouth of the Cape Fear, Fort Johnson attracted
a small community of river pilots and fishermen and
the area began to thrive.
In
1792, the NC General Assembly, at the request of Joshua
Potts, commissioned a new township and what is now
known as Southport was born. The new town was originally
named Smithville, after Benjamin Smith who served
under George Washington in the revolutionary war.
Cool summer breezes soon made Smithville a popular
summer resort, and its strategic location made Fort
Johnston important in every United States war. In
1808, Smithville became the county seat of Brunswick
County.
After
the Civil War, entrepreneurial and visionary businessmen
saw opportunity to create a major southern port city
by combining the city’s river transportation
with the new railroad system which was changing the
face of the United States. As part of their strategy,
Smithville was renamed Southport in 1887. Telegraph
service and a coaling dock for steamships were added.
Although Southport never became the major port city
they dreamed of, railroads served the town from 1911
to World War II and it was on the river steamer routes
until 1925
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