Author: Sarah Laskow / Source: Atlas Obscura
The first clue that Hurricane Florence had swept decades worth of sand from the beach was the coins, which dated back to the 1940s and ’50s. They weren’t sand-blasted, like coins washed in from the ocean; they were still encrusted with a greening corrosion.
“I realized that the sand from the dunes had just been washed away, and had left a beautiful layer, a snapshot of what the beach would have looked like in the 1940s and 50s,” says Bradley Dixon.Dixon, 32, had come down to Topsail Island, on the North Carolina coast, to volunteer after the hurricane, cleaning up debris, working on roof-tarp jobs, helping out a local campground. “We have a little place down there,” he says. “That’s our beach. That’s the place we love.” In the mornings, he would pick up trash, washed in from as far away as Haiti, from the island’s shoreline, where he noticed the coins and decided to search the area with his metal…
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