Ocean Isle Beach: A History and Remembrance – Hardcover Coffee Table Book Edition!

This book is about an eight-mile barrier island on the Atlantic coast. It faces due south, on the same latitude as Los Angeles, California and Damascus, Syria. The island enjoys a mild climate and its oceanfront consists entirely of sandy beach. It wasn’t an island until 1934 when it was severed from the mainland by the construction of a section of the Intracoastal Waterway.What is now Ocean Isle, slept in solitude for hundreds of years, disturbed only by a visit in 1791 of George Washington on his Southern Tour and by the U. S. Coast Guard’s mounted sailors who patrolled the island’s beach in WWll. In the 1920s, the long repose ended with an awakening by prohibition and the jazz age. Young flappers expended energy dancing the Charleston and imbibing bootlegged gin in Ocean Isle’s first commercial structure, a honky-tonk on the island’s welcoming beach.

Ocean Isle Gem of the Atlantic Coast – Full Color Coffee Table Edition

Escape to the sandy shores and salty air with a celebration of Ocean Isle Beach: The beauty of Ocean Isle’s beaches, marshes, canals & laid-back lifestyle in rich full-color photography. See the featured homes, parks, shops, and attractions of this hidden gem we know as Ocean Isle Beach, NC!

Buy this hardcover, high quality, full-color coffee table edition and take home a piece of this treasured island and have the beach with you all year long!