Preserving a Piece of Coastal North Carolina History

June 5, 2008 · Filed Under Brunswick Landing, Land Development 

The old Long Beach Pier that stood on Oak Island, NC may be long gone but not forgotten. Once, the longest pier in the state of NC, it served many and I fished on it myself many times in my lifetime.

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We are preserving a piece of this coastal NC history at Brunswick Landing in Holden Beach, NC. Over the last couple of years I came to know the man who took the pier down to make room for oceanfront condo’s on Oak Island. I salvaged some of the pilings as he took them down because I had an idea.

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My business partner, Doug Weaver, and myself had an idea to use the pilings to build our entrance to our new subdivision. Our entrance monument would always carry a little special sentiment.

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We stored away the pilings and with the design help of my wife Luanne, we started setting the pilings this week as we start to build the entrance. We certainly wanted to maintain the coastal feel of our neighborhood and what better way than to install a small piece of NC Coastal History.

The picture below shows how we intend to use the pilings as we start to construct the entrance sign to Brunswick Landing.

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2 Responses to “Preserving a Piece of Coastal North Carolina History”

  1. Luanne Sherron on June 5th, 2008 7:48 pm

    Enjoyed reading this.

  2. Mark Simpson on June 5th, 2008 8:53 pm

    Will the pilings smell like fish?

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