The Outer Banks of Kitty Hawk enjoy a rich cultural and technological history. If accessing the islands from the Currituck County mainland, the Outer Banks of Kitty Hawk will be the first town you will reach. For hundreds of years, the Outer Banks of Kitty Hawk have enjoyed ocean breezes, maritime forest solitude, and aviation history.

The town itself stretches from the sound in the west all the way to the ocean in the east. The four miles of land in between these two waterfronts are a vacationer's dreamland. Within the town limits one can find a fishing pier, a golf course, numerous rental properties, a quiet maritime forest, and the very site where Orville and Wilbur Wright constructed their "flying machine."

Rich History of the Outer Banks of Kitty Hawk
Kitty Hawk did not become the vacation village it is today until the late 1920s when a group of businessmen from Elizabeth City recognized its value and purchased a large area of land north of town. They subsequently formed the aptly-named Wright Memorial Company and by the 1930 had completed construction of a bridge connecting the town directly to the mainland.

Throughout the decades that followed, tourists continued to flock to the town over the $1 per car toll bridge. Residents soon recognized the windfall that had come their way and began building homes on the less protected, but more tourist-friendly, oceanfront. Today, the oceanfront of Kitty Hawk is dotted with small wooden cottages and smiling faces.

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