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Yacht basin and shipyard, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, circa 1940

Subjects
Boating & CanoeingShips & BoatsWaterfronts & Harbors
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Yacht basin and shipyard, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard
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An elevated view looks down on a yacht basin at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where a long wooden dock lined with moored motor cruisers and smaller boats juts into deep blue water; a shipyard with a marine railway and crane sits at the left, and lawns, trees and low buildings fill the foreground. Elizabeth City, on the Pasquotank River near the Albemarle Sound, was long a regional center for boatbuilding and for the Dismal Swamp Canal route of the Intracoastal Waterway, and its harbor and yards drew cruising yachtsmen through the mid-twentieth century.

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PublisherAsheville Post Card Co.
NEC-2 YACHT BASIN AND PORTION OF SHIPYARD, ELIZABETH CITY, N. C. --- Yacht Basin at Elizabeth City where mil- lions of dollars worth of palatial yachts find winter berths and marine railway and ship- building service. Scene near the plant of the Elizabeth City Iron Works & Supply Co. Elizabeth City is on the optional intra- coastal waterway route, via historic and pic- turesque Lake Drummond or Dismal Swamp. PUBLISHED BY ASHEVILLE POST CARD CO., ASHEVILLE, N. C. POST CARD PLACE STAMP HERE
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PublisherAsheville Post Card Co.
SeriesNEC-2
ConditionVery good
Place mentionedElizabeth City, NC
PublisherAsheville Post Card Co., Asheville, NC
NotesLinen-textured stock with cream border; Curt Teich plate number E-5424 printed at lower right. No postmark. Unused linen-era "POST CARD" back with printed descriptive text at left, vertical publisher imprint, and "PLACE STAMP HERE" box; light soiling along top edge, no handwriting.

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Yacht basin and shipyard, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/yacht-basin-and-shipyard-elizabeth-city-north-carolina-circa. Accessed October 25, 2026.