In 1989, the first 6,422-acre section[REF] of Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve, with 20 Carolina Bays, was purchased from International Paper [REF].
In 2007, 305 more acres called the Tiger Bay Tract[REF] were added after the South Carolina Department of Transportation asked property owners to donate the land, which could have been developed otherwise, in exchange for an interchange on Carolina Bays Parkway [REF].