Summer is here and the Outer Banks is alive and well and filled with guests. With everyone having a great time and enjoying the the sun, sand and surf, it can almost seem as though the Outer Banks just happened one day.
That's not the case, of course, so we thought it might be fun to take a look at three little know facts about the Outer Banks. As it turns out, they'll all be about the Wright Brothers.
The Other Wright Brothers Monument
The Wright Brothers Monument perched on top of Big Kill Devil Hill is not the only monument to the Wilbur and Orville Wright on the Outer Banks.
On Moor Shore Road in Kitty Hawk there is much more modest monument, this one created and paid for by the citizens of the town.
The monument, placed in May of 1928, marks the location of Bill and Addie Tate's house where the Wright Brothers stayed in 1900 when they first arrived on the Outer Banks.
The inscription reads, "On this spot, September 17, 1900, Wilbur Wright began the assembly of the Wright Brothers' First experimental glider which led to man's conquest of the air. Erected by the Citizens of Kitty Hawk, NC, 1928."
The citizens paid for the whole thing raising $210 to do so.
