The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-05-13
TO DEVELOP wRIenTsvILLE.
This Delightful Resort Being Laid
ON Into Avenues, Streets and Town
Lots Preparatory to the Demand
for Summer Homes on of
the Trolley Lines Being Built.
Property Owners Cooperating.


The Messenger mentioned several
days ago hat Wrightsville was being
laid OF into town lots in view OF the
fact that the Wilmington Seacoa5t
Railrod is soon TO be converted into .
trolley line.
Captain Walter G. MacRae, with o
corps of engineers. has been at work
for the past ten days surveying the
property of tic large real estate own
ers at Wrightsville. with a view to de-
veloping the property as an attractive
summer and winter resort and also to
making available a large tract OF land
which has heretofore been useless on
account OF lack of streets and avenues
which would make it accessible. The
following is the form Of contract which
has been entered into by the property
owners with each other and with the
Consolidated Railways, Light & Power
Company. who succeed the Wilmington
Seacoast Railroad Company, and a
number OF land owners on the Sound:
I'VE. the Undersigned, property own-
ers at Wrightsville, N. c., agree indi-
yidually and collectively with the Will
mington Seacoost Railway Company
and its successors that we will join in
a plan for the mutual improvement Of
our properties and the development Of
them into a place suitable for attrac-
tive suburban residences both for win
ter and summer, provided the said Will
mington Seacoast Railroad Company
will agree to convert it's railroad from
Wilmington to Wrightsville and to
Wrightsville Beach into a trolley line.
We will employ a competent engineer,
Mr.. Walter G.. MacRae, or someone
equally competent n mutually salts
factory. tolay cut our properties with
roads,, streets and b~oulevardS, so that
they Will combine into a uniform plan,
and result in a development which will
give the greatest advantages. These
roads. etc. are to be so laid
out that they will make accessible the
parts of our property which would not
he considered front lots on the turn
pike, and we Will deed these rights-of-
way TO 4 trustee for the mutual bene-
fit. or to a municipal corporation in
event Of n beng formed.
We will paw for the expense OF these
surN IS and maps on a pro rata basis,
tai ( as a unit of measure the front
foot measurement of our properties
all : the present turnpike; or in event
of is beins. Ill any particular cas-
ineq Litable on account of the peculiar
shape of the tract of land. our pro rata
part of the expense is to be decided by
the engineer. or, in event Of our dis
agreement with him. by arbitration.
Should the Wilmington Seacoast
Railroad Company fail to build a troll.
ley line to Wrlghtsville before July 1
1902, then this agreement to be null
, and void.
1.-The deeds for rishts-of-way above
referred to to be made to a trustee will
be made without other consideration
than the benefits to be derived by u:
from the proposed improvements.
This prompt move on the part Of tn.
! real estate owners shows their realiZa
, ton of the advantages which will &C
crus to them by h proposed develop
ments and the convenient and FIRE
' quent service Tor travel which will b,
given by the new trolley line.
The climate of Wrightsville is I'm
eXcelled, either in winter or in summer
by that Of any place on the Atlanti
Coast. h winters are mild and de
fact has been shown by the visitor
from the north who come down Their
every winter and are enthusiast
about the place. Wrightsville has BEEF
the popular resort for Wilmingtonian
in summer Tor more than a century
and since it ha a railroad facilitie
has become popular with a great man,
southern people from the interior, an
a C year brings additional proof o
this by the increasing numbers VIII
come there.