First Flights: December 17th, 1903

Historical marker location:

Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

( Marker can be reached from Wright Memorial west of North Croatan Highway (U.S. 158), on the right when traveling west.)

Wright Brothers National Memorial.

North Carolina has a rich African-American history, including the establishment of the first free black community in the United States, known as the Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, during the Civil War.