The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1926-10-15
NORTH CAROLINA TO BE
PLAYGROUNDOFAM
Proposed Development of Our Costal Regions
Will Mean Steady Stream Of Tourists
Between The Mountains and The Sea

The plans Of Eastern capi-
taliSts to develop North Caro-
lina'S long neglected coast as
al all year round pleasure re-
SCrt are in line with numerous
projects destined to make
North Carolina the playground
OF tie nation.
The bulk of the tourist trade of
America iS from that section OF
the country North of the Potomac
and East ,f the Mississippi River.
Beth california; amd Florida are
too far remote from the millions of
The East and Middle West.
The climate of neither California
nor Florida i inviting t" ali wear
round tourists. Even those who
~ fl, M the North to Florida in
winter find the extremes of weather
msayurahle tp their hcalth. They
switch from the extreme cold Of the
North tn the halmy >prin"-Iike
weather of the South Tnp"rparCd
for the change They leave New
York i'm wunlenS Saturday and
change to tr, pical clothing at Palm
Beach on Monday. Then they re-
turn North. change hack 10 w"o:cnS
again and take cold. Their trip To
Florida does them more harm than
good.
Then too. Fl, rida is too far away
for most of the population in the
East and Middle West. 1t c"StS a
lot of money and takes I lnC of time
To go from Boston. New York. Phil
adclrhia. Baltimore. Washington,
Pittsburgh. Detroit. Chicago ana like
point< to Florida. North Carolina
is only Il nights ride from New
York or Philadelphia.
Western North Carolina Land nf
the Sky has attracted millions Of
tourists within recent years. Mil
liens are hein% spent in new dcve-
lnpmcutS in Western North Carolina
that will attract millions of other
Tourists. But that is in the moun-
tair>. Not all tourists want 10 -
| to the mountains.
And there are those who 30 to the
mountains who would like tn >ee
the SCaShOre once in Il while for Il
change. The wonderful bridge now
nearing completion over Ch"wan
River az EdentOn. the proposed
bridge across Currituck Sound and
the rest of North Carolina woudcr-
ful highway >y<tcm will give tour
/ lists Il fast road from the mountains
tn the SEA and from the Sca>h0re 20
the mountains.
Tourists from New England ana
th@ Middle West will have th"iE
choice of Sea>hnre and mountains
when they come To North Caroline.
if rretcntinu> plans for the develop
mcnt of the North Carolina coast
are carried ont. And those ptaL>
will hp carried Out.-if not by IN"
present promoters who have aCpHir-
rd tftIr 10 upwardS of 2J,OO0 acres
hrtHCen Nays Head and llatter"S.
then 10y other capitalists who can
not fail to see the possibilities i'll Il
great coastal development.
There. is every prospect that East
crn North Carolina is lii t"r some
thing biz. Nature has given us
everything to start with. Earth
G;rakcS are forever threatening Cali
fnrnia: the West Indie$ are forever
hntching tornadocS to tcrrorlze
Florida: North Carolina has been
sitting pretty for more than three
hundred years. There is Roanoke
Island to-day. just about as it was
when the Sir Walter Raleigh eXpcdl-
,fnn< landed on its shores i'll the
days of Queen Elizabeth.
Elizabeth City will benefit in
men$ely from the flow ot tourist
traffic this way. over the Atlantic
Coastal Highway. With th2 compile
tion of the Virginia Dare Hotel.
tourists will find the kind of hotc.
accommodations here that they de-
mand and they will find their came
Of golf ut the Elizabeth City C0ull-
try club. on one of the Spprti"St
courses IN the Atlautic >eab"&rd.