Kill Devil Hills Beach - North Carolina
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fatcat161
N 36° 01.125 W 075° 39.454
18S E 440748 N 3986228
Part of the outerbanks of North Carolina this beautiful streatch of white sand is within view of where the Wright brothers first flew.
Waymark Code: WM74W3
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 09/02/2009
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The name Kill Devil Hills can be dated back to the colonial era. Shipwrecks were common at the time, and many of the ships were transporting barrels of rum. Upon a shipwreck, locals would scavenge the ship and hide the rum they found behind the same large sand dunes where the Wright brothers later flew the first plane. The locals said that the rum was strong enough to "kill the devil," so the dunes where they would hide the rum were nicknamed 'Kill Devil Hills.' (
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