The Wright Memorial Near Kitty Hawk

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Stock #:219253
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Kill Devil Hills
State: North Carolina (NC)
County: Dare
Publisher: Asheville Post Card Co.
Postmark: 1941 Oct-20
Postmark City: Los Head
Postmark State: NC
Stamp: 1c
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Recipient Address:Mr. Harry Hopkins
Box 301
Freedom, MT
Additional Details:
The Wright Memorial, of North Carolina granite, is mounted on top of the principal dune of Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, where Wilbur and Orville Wright experimented with their glider. On December 17, 1903, near the foot of this hill, they successfully flew their plane under its own power, the first flight of a heavier-than-air machine ever made by man

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