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Oldest Fishing Pier on the East Coast L. C. Kure built the first fishing pier into the Atlantic Ocean in 1923, using timbers cut nearby. The pier was 16 feet wide and 120 feel long, and it fell in a storm in the first year. The following year, Kure rebuilt his pier with concrete posts reinforced with railroad iron, doubling the length and width. It has since been damaged by hurricanes eleven times and rebuilt every time. In 1952, Bill Robertson, then Kure's son-in-law, bought the pier and with relentless promotion made it into a big attraction, the most popular fishing pier on the coast. Three phenomenal months of fishing in the fall of 1957 didn't hurt any. People hauled fish off the pier in wheelbarrows. In a single day, more than 80,000 fish were caught from the pier. Bill, who died in 1988, wrote a book about the pier called Man! You Should Have Been Here Last Week. His son Mike now operates the pier.
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