History of Ocean City

Seventy-one years ago, something quite eventful happened on Topsail Island. A few wise men and women envisioned the establishment of a special community inhabited with a special group of people in a very special place. Thus, the Ocean City Community was founded in 1949, as the only place African-Americans could purchase coastal property in North Carolina, 15 years before the Civil Rights Act. Today we are the caretakers, and the trustees, of their hope.

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