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Many visitors travel to Bald Head Island in southeastern North Carolina each year to enjoy the natural beauty of this maritime island situated where the Cape Fear River meets the Atlantic Ocean. A prominent landmark on the island is “Old Baldy,” one of the state’s most recognized lighthouses.
Although this lighthouse is the oldest standing along the North Carolina coast, the island’s rich lighthouse history predates construction of this famous structure in 1817.
In the year 1784, the North Carolina General Assembly passed a law which established several rules for navigation on the Cape Fear River from Negroehead Point to the sea.
The law set rates for pilotage and established several regulations concerning the pilots who guided vessels into the river. It also levied a duty of six pence per ton on incoming vessels to raise money for a lighthouse.
The law stipulated that the structure was to be built “at the extreme point of Bald-head or some other convenient place near the bar of