Located in southern Brunswick County, Holden Beach is a seaside town with 575 inhabitants, which occupies an 13-km-long barrier island on the Atlantic Ocean, bounded by Shallotte Inlet to the west, Lockwoods Folly Inlet to the east, and the Intracoastal Waterway to the north. Before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Intracoastal Waterway in the 1930s, the only body of water separating Holden Beach from the mainland was the Elizabeth River.
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