Avon

Dune Line - Avon, NC, USA

Fifteen hundred WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers were employed to build the fences. The “CCC boys,” unmarried young men and teenagers, were housed in military-style camps on Cape Hatteras and Roanoke Island. They were given uniforms and led by military officers who drove Army trucks on the beach. Working seven days a week, with Sunday afternoons off, the young men built fences with timber and brush and installed them along the contour of the shoreline. The fences stopped the blowing sands, allowing dunes to form and grow. The workers then planted grasses — beach grass, sea oats, cordgrass, and wiregrass — along with shrubs and tree seedlings to fortify the dunes, ranging from 10 to 25 feet in height.

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