Ava Gardner

Historical marker location:

Smithfield, North Carolina

( Marker is on West Market Street (Business U.S. 70) north of State Highway 210, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2015

1922 1990.

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.