The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1958-12-05
FERRY PLANNED
AT OCRACOKE BY
TAYLOR BROTHERS
A 100000 Boat and Two Round
Trips Daily Across Pamlico
Sound to Cedar Island

Announcement by the Taylor
Brothers of Sea Level, Miami and
Norfolk that they expect to build
a 100000 ferry boat to operate
two trips daily between Ocracoke
Island in Hyde County and Cedar
Island in Carteret County is big
news for those tireless advocates
'lof the All-Seashore Highway prof.
ect that has been fought for the
past three years.
Two round trips each way by
boat lis feet long carrying Is cars
each way each time and as many
as 100 passengers would mean
tremendous boost in travel to
Ocracoke Island and all the viii
lagos of the Dare County coast.
Hatteras Islanders look upon this
project as one calculated to hasten
the construction of a bridge over
Oregon Inlet.
Another factor in this All-Sea-
shore highway project is the pro-
.posal for a road between Virginia
Beach and Kitty Hawk, which
would link up the greater length
of the N. C. coast with a direct
route northward to New York
through the proposed Chesapeake
Bay bridge-tunnel across the 10
miles now traversed by ferry to
Kiptopeke.
Contemplation of these several
proposed facilities of tremendous
magnitude pictures an unforeseen
development of the coast, and huge
rise in income for its people.
The Taylor Brothers, sons of
Capt. and Mrs. Maltby Taylor of
Sea Level, Dan, William, Alfred
and Leslie have been highly sue
cessful and have grown extremely
wealthy through their business
ventures. These include a ferry
between Key West and Havana,
several steamship lines, luxury
hotels in Florida, and other enter
prises.
Two years ago they presented
their old home community with a
modern hospital and the funds to
keep it in operation. They also
built nearby motel to care for
those who came to the community
by reason of the hospital.
The proposed 115-foot ferry
will be 3S feet wide, of shallow
draft and will have a speed of IL
to Is miles an hour. Plans for the
boat have been drafted and bids
will be sought from several ship
yards. 1t will make the trip across
Pamlico Sound in less than two
and one half hours, a distance of
"a nautical miles.
Conferences have been held
with Governor Hodges and high
way officials regarding the prof.
ect. Very little preparation will be
needed at Ocracoke Island but
considerable development will be
required at the Carteret County
terminal.
Governor Hodges this week high
ly commended the Taylor Brothers
of Carteret County for their an
nounced plans To- establish a car
ferry service between Ocracoke
and Carteret County mainland.
In a letter to Dan E. Taylor,
] eldest of the four Taylor Brothers
of Carteret County, the Governor
expressed his appreciation "for the
great service you propose to rem
der North Carolina, and particu-
larly your native part of the State,
by establishing ferry from Ocra-
coke to the mainland.
"This announcement of yours if
further testimony to your
thoughtfulness, patriotism and
generosity and / fervently hope
others will follow your example of
doing things for their native state
and their native sections. You have
already made many people happy,
including your own wonderful pa
rents, by the establishment of a
modern hospital at Sea Level, your
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