Pine Knoll Shores’ first
Board of Commissioners selected the town’s first mayor in August 1973. Earlier
that year, the first edition of “Shore-line,” a newsletter that became a
monthly newspaper appeared. Much of what is known about the early mayors of
Pine Knoll Shores comes from Shoreline
issues, now available at ncdigital.com (The paper’s name is variously spelled,
but this post will consistently use Shoreline).
Other sources, including interviews with family members and residents, add to
the following history, which covers years when elected Boards of Commissioners
selected mayors from their membership, a practice that continued until 2003.
