Drove to Kill Devil Hill the site of the Wright Brothers first flight. The site is administered by the National Parks and is very well preserved and includes an excellent museum. The large monument in the photograph was erected in 1928 for the 25th anniversary of the first flight. In one of the photos you will also see four granite stones marking the distances of the four flights of the first day, 17 December 1903. The brothers took it in turns to fly the aircraft..the first distance being just over 100 feet and the last being in excess of 800 feet. The photos also show a sculpture of the Wright flyer celebrating 100 years of flight.
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| Wright Brothers - Kill Devil Hill |
We then took Highway 64 West to the mainland, crossing Roanoke Island the place where the first English child was born in the new world. On through the low lying country of Dismal Swamp to the little historical town of Plymouth which has a great Civil War museum and a 6:10 working model of the Confederate States ironclad Albemarle. For those of you who are interested, the story of the ship is well worth a Google search as it was quite unique.
We walked through the historic part of town admiring some of the buildings which still show damage from civil war days. A replica of the original lighthouse was interesting as you can see from the photograph.
We pushed on to Rocky Mount for the night.
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