Stamp Act

Resisted by armed band, Feb., 1766, at Brunswick, where royal governor Tryon lived. Site 18¾ mi. south.

Marker is on River Road SE (North Carolina Route 133) south of U.S. 17, on the right.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Chambers Stamp Factory

Two miles northeast, at Lodge, stood the Chambers Stamp Factory, owned by the same family for our generations. Founded in Washington, D.C., about 1830 by Benjamin Chambers, Sr., an engraver and inventor of a breech-loading cannon, the company specialized in ...