The Blockade Runner Motor Hotel, which opened in Wrightsville Beach in 1964, was recently renamed Trailborn Surf & Sound. The seven-story hotel cost $2 million to build and initially had 120 rooms, a ...

As Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville Beach was celebrating its 60th anniversary last year, new owners were planning something completely different for the unique property that includes ...

The Blockade Runner Beach Resort in Wrightsville Beach is rebranding with a new name, according to a press release from Castle Peak Holdings. The historic resort property dates to 1964 and had been a ...

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Their career began 150 years ago and lasted just a few seasons, but for a while they made Wilmington, in the words of Civil War writer Clint Johnson, "the most important city in the Confederacy." They ...