Wash Woods Station Site
North Swan Beach, NC
Also known as Deal's Island (1878-1882); Wash Woods (1883-1951)
The Wash Woods Station Site site was established in 1917 (at this site, 1878 at original site)
Station closed in 1954 or 1955 at this site and abandoned. Station was used as a fishing camp and later as a hunting lodge. 1917 station house survives and is privately owned.
Station Site Notes:
1878 will soon be in operation (1882/1883?); 1885 additions and repairs; 1918 contract awarded for new dwelling; 1919 dwelling and outbuilding rebuilt (USLSS Annual Reports). Abandoned in 1951 (USCG Historian's Website). Decommissioned in 1954-'55. The building was used as a fishing camp and later as a hunting lodge (Fielding Tyler, Old Coast Guard Museum).
Buildings at this Station Site
The 1919 station house is surviving at this site