Record #:

12284

Author(s):

Hall, Lewis Phillip

Abstract:

Today most coastal piers in North Carolina from Kitty Hawk to the South Carolina line were erected for the convenience and dollar of the fishing public, but in 1910 when the first ocean pier was built at Wrightsville Beach, the effort intended to enhance the cultural arts of southeastern North Carolina. Then known as \"The Playground of Dixie,\" the recently built pavilion, called Lumina, drew great crowds from daily passenger trains at the Union Station in Wilmington. The pier stretched 700 feet into the ocean and was 30 feet wide.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 39 Issue 6, Aug 1971, p12, il

Subject(s):

Piers--Wrightsville Beach