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The silent auction will be 5-7 p.m. and items will include a photography session, boat tour, fishing trip, custom stained glass, original artworks, vacation rentals, Bald Head Island club member ...
The island has tennis courts, a boat ramp, a yacht club, and a marina. The Eagle Point Golf Club, located on the mainland, has connections to Figure Eight, built by several Island residents. [8] The Figure Eight Yacht Club is a private island club for dining and formal events. Figure Eight is not accessible to the public by car but is by boat. [37]
The town occupies an 8-mile-long (13 km) barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by Shallotte Inlet to the west, Lockwoods Folly Inlet to the east, and the Intracoastal Waterway to the north. One road, North Carolina Highway 130 , crosses the Intracoastal Waterway to connect Holden Beach with the mainland.
The construction of a lighthouse at the mouth of the Cape Fear River was authorized by the Commissioners of the Cape Fear in 1789. The commission specified that the light be built "at the extreme point on Bald-head or some other convenient place near the bar of said river, in order that vessels may be enabled thereby to avoid the great shoal called Frying-Pan."
Haglund explained the trip from Burlington to Bald Head Island wasn’t too bad. “It was only three-and-a-half hours,” Haglund said. “In the beginning, I was commuting almost every weekend.”
Although technically no longer an island since Corncake Inlet shoaled up in the late 1990s, meaning deer can migrate from southern New Hanover County, Bald Head's deer population is very well ...
A view of the Bald Head Island and the Old Baldy Lighthouse from the shipping channel in the Cape Fear River Within a few short years others from Barbados, again led by Col. John Yeamans, would return to the eastern American coast to help realize Yeaman's dream of new "Charleston" near Port Royal, South Carolina, [ 9 ] a town that would quickly ...
Sunset Beach is located in southwestern Brunswick County. It is the last developed Atlantic Ocean beach before the South Carolina border. One-third of the town's area occupies a barrier island between the ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway; the remainder of the town extends onto the mainland to the north.