Kill Devil Hill Station Site

Kill Devil Hills, NC

Also known as Kill Devil Hills

The Kill Devil Hill Station Site site was established in 1878

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This is not an active site. It was active 1878-1964

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This site was closed (in) 1964

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This is the original site location

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Designation number: 173

Station closed in 1964. 1878 station house survives and is a real estate office. 1933 station house was demolished in 2004.

Station Site Notes:

1878 will soon be in operation (1882-1883?); 1885 additions and repairs (USLSS Annual Reports). Turned over to GSA in 1964; The crew from this station assisted Orville and Wilbur Wright in their historic first heavier-than-air flight on 17 December 1903 (USCG Historian's Website).

Buildings at this Station Site

There are no surviving station houses at this site.

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