Northampton County, Virginia
Client: Private Client
Acreage: 1,278
Completed: 2005
Publication: The Virginia Sportsman, "Saving a Spectacular Wilderness: McKee Carson Conserves a Seaside Farm on Virginia's Eastern Shore", April/May 2006

Located along the barrier islands between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, Brickhouse Neck is not only a beautiful place but a unique ecosystem as well. The property forms a narrow sliver of farm field and salt marsh interspersed with tidal creeks, mud flats, shallow bays and ponds. Brickhouse Neck and its family of barrier islands is a fragile landscape that comprises the longest stretch of coastal wilderness remaining on the Atlantic Coast of the United States.

Beginning in 1969, The Nature Conservancy bought 14 of the islands as the core of the Virginia Coast Reserve in an effort to ward off huge development proposals that would have included marinas, bridges and condos. Our work at Brickhouse Farm is intended to help the Nature Conservancy broaden its protection of this vital ecosystem. We have worked with our client, helping to assure that the land has been placed under conservation easement and preserved long into the future.