By Chasity Baker For the Enterprise
The Scouts of Troop 505 in Mocksville recently had a once in a lifetime experience. They spent four nights on the famous Frying Pan Tower. Frying Pan Tower is that tower far from shore where you can see on the Weather Channel where Old Glory flies – holding strong when the hurricane winds push through the Carolinas. The tower was once an old Coast Guard Station, built in 1964 to protect ships from wrecking into what is known as Frying Pan shoals. When GPS was invented, the tower was decommissioned by the Coast Guard in the 1990s. Several people have worked to restore the old tower through the years. It is now a non-profit owned by a group of people with interest to preserve it for educational purposes and experiences for future generations. On…..