You can still purchase a copy of the book Celebrating 50 Years of Emerald Isle, 1957-2007. This book is a wonder collection of stories, photos, and history of this great island town.

A supply of the Emerald Isle 50th Birthday commemorative books are again available while supplies last!

"Celebrating 50 Years of Emerald Isle, 1957-2007". Coffee Table Book of a pictorial history of Emerald Isle including local landmarks from the past and present, indigenous recipes, community tales and a pinch of political history.

To place an order please call or email Jeff Walston, Account Executive with VistaGraphics, Inc. at 252.393.6906 / toll free at 800.422.0742 or email: jwalston@vgnet.com

Emerald Isle residents are often newcomers, having arrived in the last 10 years, but the town's history goes back to the 1950s:

The Western most thirteen miles of the Bogue Banks barrier island of the Southern Outer Banks was purchased in 1951 from Mrs. Anita Fort Maulik of Philadelphia. The total purchase price of $350,000, the largest ever recorded in Carteret County at the time, was offered by seven investors from the Red Springs area of Southeastern North Carolina.