Coast Guard Station Cobb Island

TNC moved the buildings comprising the former Station Cobb Island, by barge, eight miles across Cobb Island Bay, to a newly prepared site in Oyster, Northampton County, Virginia, on Virginia's Eastern Shore, in May 1998.

TNC subsequently restored the former Station Cobb Island as a nature education center/lodge/conference center through adaptive reuse.

Eventually, Cobb constructed a hotel that catered to wealthy sportsmen from the northeast who traveled to the barrier island to hunt waterfowl and fish, and built a small town with a number of summer cottages and a church.

The Cobbs and all other residents had moved to the mainland more than three decades earlier after the 1896 Hurricane destroyed the hotel and much of the town.

The architecture style of the new station was Colonial Revival, as designed by the Coast Guard’s Civil Engineer’s office.

[3] During its 89 year existence Coast Guard Station Cobb Island responded to twenty-four major shipwrecks.

By the 1990s the former Coast Guard station was threatened by shoreline erosion and TNC made the decision to move the historic building from Cobb Island to the mainland to save it from destruction.

[8] The property, including the restored buildings and structures comprising the former Station Cobb Island, is currently (2018) listed for sale.