Preserving a Piece of Coastal North Carolina History

June 5, 2008 · Filed Under Brunswick Landing, Land Development · 2 Comments 

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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