A fence divided the beach from adjacent Buckroe Beach, which was whites-only when segregation was in effect. The hotel was listed in the Green Book from 1947-58, and again from 1962-64 and 1966-67.

Decades ago, the former Bay Shore Hotel near the fishing pier stood majestically on a segregated Buckroe Beach. It began as a four-room cottage in 1898, as the only African-American beach resort on… ...