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The 60-year-old Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville Beach will undergo a comprehensive renovation and rebrand as Trailborn Surf & Sound in early 2025.
Mistaken for a blockade runner and rammed by USS Monticello off Kure Beach. [6] Pevensey Confederate States: Blockade runner, sank off Atlantic Beach. Phantom Confederate States: 1863 Steel-hulled blockade runner; sunk at Topsail Inlet. USS Pilgrim United States: 1935 Patrol vessel that was scuttled off Harkers Island as a breakwater.
Figure Eight Island is located just north of Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington. The island has an area of 1,300 acres (526 ha), [ 1 ] most of which is marshland . Between the northernmost part of Figure Eight and Lea-Hutaff Island lies Rich Inlet, one of the few natural inlets in North Carolina. [ 49 ]
Related coverage: Wrightsville Beach among best beaches in North Carolina, according to a USA TODAY poll The town bears the name of Joshua Grainger Wright, a judge who lived and worked in ...
Wrightsville Beach is a town in New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. Wrightsville Beach is just east of Wilmington and is part of the Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,477 at the 2010 census. The town consists of a 4-mile (6 km) long beach island, an interior island called Harbor Island, and pockets of ...
In late 2022, the Wrightsville Yacht Club announced that Bakatsias would lead the food and beverage program for a new, exclusive floating restaurant at the Wrightsville Beach Marina.
It’s all part of a massive $20 million renovation to refashion the site as an outdoor entertainment destination. The 250,000-square-foot retail center is adding an outdoor stage, greenspace and ...
PS Scotia was a steam paddle passenger vessel that ran between Wales and Ireland from 1847 to 1861, and then became an American Civil War blockade runner. Renamed General Banks, then Fanny and Jenny, she ran agound in February 1864 attempting to reach Wilmington, North Carolina.