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MOREHEAD CITY "The Ideal Place To Live" Wants You Climate and Hotels Make It a Resort Midway between New York and Florida, Morehead City citizens and visitors are favored with ideal climate. The breeze from the sea makes the Summer's pleasant and the warmth of the Gulf Stream erects a bar age which the rigors of Winter can not penetrate. Naturally, it has been for years a favorite resort and the hotel accommodations have won the praise of many guests. Its five leading hotels are the Atlantic, with more than 200 rooms; the Woodland, The Ocean Beach, The Charles and The Little Jim. Swim ming, boating, fishing, hunting and camping give favorite pasttimes to divergent tastes while those who like to wander where history's pages have shed lustre may make pilgrim ages to Fort Macon, recently given to the State of North Carolina by .the Federal Government and which will be converted into a State Park. Located here are also a Unit ed States Coast Guard Station, a wireless station, and once each year the kakhi hosts of the National Guard mobolize at Camp Glenn for their Summer encampment. Fraternal and Civic Organizations A progressive civic and a broad fraternal spirit flourishes at Morehead City. Its Chamber of Commerce has an ac tive membership, its Rotary Club helps turn the wheels of progress, and its Woman's Club is constantly alert to pro mote the aesthetic atmosphere of the city. A Masonic lodge, and American Legion post, the Red Men, The Odd Fellows, the Woodmen and the Charitable Brotherhood all have active personnels. A business organization in which a spirit of community pride grows into tangible assets is through the channel of a progressive Building and Loan As sociation. Morehead City is also headquarters for the North Carolina Fisheries Commission. Harbor and Snipping Point Morehead City docks are only eleven miles from Cape Lookout Harbor of Refuge which is recognized as one of the best natural harbors along the coast. More than two million dollars has recently been spent on this development and additionally the city has a splendid harbor connecting with Inland Waterways, making it a splendid shipping point and the logcial place where further port terminal develop ment may commence. Developments Now Underway Bogue Development Company, a Corporation recently or ganized for the development of unimproved city property is now engaged in the actual development of approximately three hundred city lots in the western end of the City, to be be used strictly for residential purposes, with restrictions and limitations of the kind and character of the buildings to be erected. Just outside of the City Limits, and over looking beautiful Bogue Sound, corporations are busily en gaged in the development of the "Morehead Bluffs and "Bogue Bluffs." This development contemplates the build ing of concrete streets and^ide walks, the laying out and development of parks, and providing in general for sum mer and winter homes, and recreation and amusement centers. On these new developments will be spent several million dollars for the purpose of giving to Morehead City and its environs, supplemented by its natural and climatic advantages, the requisite touches to make it an all year resort. Its Citizenship and Opportunity With a citizentry of strudy Anglo-Saxon stock, energetic and broad visioned, the people of the town have a welcome for those who will come to its borders and help develop the resources which are the bedrock of opportunity. Its peo ple are friendly, its opportunities unlimited for vision and capital. Morehead City is anxious to welcome you and to co-operate with you in the further development of this sec tion of Eastern Carolina. U. S. Fish Laboratory, Pivers Island Rear View Atlantic Hotel Bird's Eye View of Morehead City Norfolk Southern R. R. Station Those seeking an Ideal Permanenent Residence will find an appeal ing atmosphere among our people. THE MAYOR OR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, MOREHEAD CITY, N. C
The Franklin Times (Louisburg, N.C.)
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