Batchelder's Creek

Historical marker location:

New Bern, North Carolina

( Memorial is on State Highway 55, ½ mile east of Hyman Road (County Route 1244), on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1976

The Wright Brothers, credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane, made their first successful flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.