Middlesex Supervisors voted 4-0 on July 8, 2025 to sell the 7.05 acres of county-owned waterfront property on Paradise Lane Landing in Deltaville.
The property was purchased in May 2015 with supervisors paying $214,500 out of county coffers for the site. According to the May 7, 2015 issue of the Southside Sentinel County Administrator Matt Walker said the county purchased the property to “provide public waterfront access on Jackson Creek.”
The property was approved in 2015 on a 4-0 vote with then-Hartfield representative Bob LeBoeuf, Pinetop representative Beth Hurd, Jamaica District Supervisor Wayne Jessie and Saluda District Supervisor Pete Mansfield voting to purchase the property. Then-Harmony Village Supervisor Jack Miller was not in attendance due to health issues.
Just more than 10 years later the current 2025 board voted to sell the property.
Over the decade, the county has done very little to make the property usable or desirable for public access. This in part may have been due to public pressure that complained that the site is located in a residential area and has shallow…
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