The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1955-11-04
GOLF COURSES PLANNED FOR
BOTH ROANOKE ISLAND AND
SOUTHERN SHORES IN DARE
Mother Vineyard Yacht & Country Club Project
Has Many Subscribers in First Meeting Thurs
day Night in Manteo; Southern Shores Owners
Set Up 400 Acres In Project Estimated at
$425OOO

Golf, the little four letter word
that has given much concern to the
forward looking people in the Dare
Coastland for several years, has
finally come to the front in big
letters, and it looks as if something
is going to come of it. In Dare
County, where so often things
don't get done by halves, in this
case it will be doubled.
All in one week, one group on
Roanoke Island and another at
Southern Shores, the big restrict
ed seashore development in the
northern end Of the county, were
busy with plans. The Manteo
group, headed by Guy Lennon and
his associate owners in the Mother
Vineyard project, proposed to chip
in $50 acres of land free Of cost
to the Mother Vineyard Golf and
Country Club now being formed.
The Club through the sale of stock
would build a golf course and club
house, and to finance the $4,000
project, it is proposed to obtain
500 shareholders at $500 each.
A meeting attended by some 40
people, mostly of Manteo, held
Thursday night in the community
building heard tentative plans for
the Roanoke Island project dis
cussed. 1t is estimated that some
so people had already agreed to
put $500 in the project. These men
included the follows: R. Bruce
Fheridge, L. L. Swain, Ralph
n in, Ernest Meekins, Ralph and
hon Davis, Ray Lewis, Archie
.frus, M. X. Fearing Jr., M. L.
Daniels Jr., Gordon Kellogg, Mar
tin Kellogg Jr., Thos. Chears, Jr.
and W. H., McCoWn.
The owners of the Mother Vine
yard property are Mr.. Etheridge,
G. T. Westcott and DIR. w. E. Len
non of fredericksburg, Md, Guy and
R. B. Lennon of Manteo. For some
months they have been engaged
in landscaping a section of the
property for residential develop
ment. Its ideal location on the
eastern shore of Roanoke Island
offers many possibilities for the
several purposes outlined for its
development.
The Southern Shores project
located north of Kitty Hawk is re-
ported to embrace an even more
elaborate outlay, and this project
has been outlined as follows in a
news report by Aycock Brown:
Negotiations were completed
here last week between organizers
of the proposed Kitty Hawk Golf
and Country Club and j. Ellis
Naples, of nston-Salem, to de-
sign an 18-hole championship golf
course on properties donated by
the Kitty Hawk Land Company in
Southern Shores. Total cost of the
project on which work is expected
to begin soon will be approximate
ly $425, 900.
The recently organized corpora
ton, Golf and Country Club De-
velopment Company, plans to build
the golf course and clubhouse, and
possibly add a yacht club later.
The yacht facilities would be con-
structed on Jean Cutie Creek, an
almost land-locked bay of Curri-
tuck Sound, near the Wright Mem
orial Bridge on U. S. Highway 158.
Incorporators of the Golf and
Country Club Development Com
pany include w. P. Mcdowell, Jr..
Elizabeth City; Leo Bernan, golf
pro at the Princess Anne Country
Club, Virginia Beach; Duck Braith-
waite, Virginia Beach realty agent;
w. A. McClung, former president
of the Charlottesville, Va, Kes-
wick Country Club; H. Travis
Sykes, owner-operator Of the Sea
Ranch at Southern Shores, Kitty
awk; Allen Pierce, amateur golf
Of Weldon, N. c.; and George
n. Bratten, Jr., Virginia Beach
automobile dealer.
The developers of Southern
Shores, coastal residential sec
ton which has built up for sew
eral miles along the coast near
Kitty Hawk, set aside 400 acres
for the new golf and country club
estates, valued at 100000.
OF this acreage, 160 acres will
be used for the clubhouse and golf
course, with 240 acres earmarked
for residential development. Mem
bers of the developing company
have stated that each person buy
ing shares in the project will re-
ceive, in addition to interest in
the club and golf course, domestic
lots in the 240 acres set aside for
residential development.