“KILL DEVIL HILL-- Lofty Wright Memorial Beacon crowns Kill Devil Hill in Dare County, N. C., where the Wright Brothers first flew their pioneering airplane. U.S. 17 and N.C. 34.”

Source: Image and caption from "Kill Devil Hill," postcard NC 22 in Variety Vacation Land, Raleigh, N.C.: Department of Conservation and Development, [1939]. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. VCp917 N87c.