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Long Beach, North Carolina is a coastal neighborhood on Oak Island incorporated in 1955. It is well known for the total devastation it sustained during Hurricane Hazel in 1954; only five of the 357 buildings survived the storm. [1] It merged with neighboring Yaupon Beach in 1999 to form the town of Oak Island and is now a neighborhood of the town.
These sites have been designated as historic landmarks in the Long Beach Municipal Code. The city of Long Beach has recognized certain buildings and neighborhoods as having special architectural and historical value. The City Council designates historic landmarks and districts by city ordinance. In total, there are 114 Long Beach historic ...
Blue Ridge Parkway through Virginia and North Carolina 36°26′03″N 81°03′48″W / 36.4343°N 81.0632°W / 36.4343; -81.0632 ( Blue Ridge Alleghany , Ashe , Watauga , Avery , Mitchell , Yancey , Buncombe , Henderson , Haywood , Transylvania , Jackson , Swain
If approved as landmarks by the council at its May 11 development review meeting, the three properties will join 350 other landmarked properties, sites and vistas that are protected under the town ...
The Ocean Center Building. The original layout of the Ocean Center Building had two ground floors: an entrance above the shoreline on the bluff level to take advantage of its address on 110 West Ocean Boulevard, and an east entrance at the base of the Pine Avenue incline providing beach access and accommodating the Walk of a Thousand Lights of The Pike amusement zone.
[3] At the time, Long Beach's skyline lacked other skyscrapers, and the Times predicted that "this magnificent building will become a landmark that may be seen from ocean vessels miles away." [3] View looking west from the Cooper Arms, October 1929. In 1933, the Cooper Arms survived the Long Beach earthquake without major damage. One long-time ...
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