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James W. Lea, Ryan Schultz and Paige Inman are pleased to
announce that The Lea/Schultz Law Firm has been named in
US News & World Report as one of the best law firms in the
country in the area of Family Law for the second straight year.
Mr. Lea has been recognized in “The Best Lawyers in America”
and a “North Carolina Super Lawyer” for eight consecutive
years and has been recognized as an “A” rating attorney as one
of the country’s Pre-Eminent Lawyers since 1996 — seventeen
straight years for such recognition.
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ira Mar was
the name
bestowed
upon the
original pier
by Floyd Cox,
the builder who completed the
structure in 1939. Cox built the
pier over the remains of the famed
Confederate blockade-runner Fanny
and Jenny, whose hull and machinery
were visible during low tide at the
time.
Wrightsville Beach resident historian
Bill Creasy says he remembers a
portion of the Fanny and Jenny’s hull
had to be removed with dynamite
during construction of the Mira Mar.
Building over the blockade-runner
also proved to be an effective draw
for area fishermen, who were anxious
to see if an artificial reef had built up
around the wreckage.
“Back then it was a different clientele
of people down here than there is
now,” Creasy says. “Most of them
were fishermen, and of course when
they heard a new pier might be built
they were anxious to get out there and
see if the fishing was any better there;
and it was.”
Although the trolley line ran as
far south as the pier, Creasy, whose
family once lived on Charlotte Street,
says the north-enders like himself did
not venture down to the Mira Mar
frequently because it was much easier
to walk to Johnnie Mercer’s Pier —
built in 1937 as the Atlantic View
Fishing Pier. However, for young
boys growing up on the south end
like Ed Dalton, the Mira Mar, by
then renamed the Crystal Pier, was a
world all to itself.
Dalton made the trip down each
summer from Asheboro with his
parents and siblings beginning in
1957 with Crystal Pier on the brain,
and the coming catches of bluefish,
spots, sharks, sheepshead, tarpons
and king mackerels.
“We were right around the corner
and when I didn’t have anything else
to do or any place else to be I would
go out to the pier,” Dalton says.
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PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF BILL CREASY