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TWO WRIGHT BROS. NOT HELPED MAKE EAST Thr^c- Centuries Before Advent the Airplane, Kill Devil Hills Witnessed the Passage ef Walter Ra- ! ieigh's Colonists, Sent on Estab- , ] Hshlng Empire i? the Nov/ World; < and Probably Saw Enacted Tragic Drama or the Lost Cc-iony ? ISOLATION IS YIELDING TO 'PROGRAM OF PROGRESS" Ralph Pool in News and Observer. Elizabeth City, N. C.?Nowhere, perhaps, on the Atlantic seaboard is there a region richer in historic and romantic Jissociations than that , about Kitty Hawk, midway oetweeiij1 Cane Henry and Cape Iiatteras, ( whe? an internationally distinguish-j: ed a? em _ gathered Monday to j1 rein orate the sliver anniversary of the WrijrhLs* first flight. Not hlone did Kill Devi! Hilts, I' great twin dunes it Kitty Hawk, stand sponsor at the birth of aviation : J -5 years ago. More tha'. three ceii-' turles before that event, .bey saw ' the passage of the Waiter Raieich eolpnist -. bent upon founding a great ' English empire hi the New World; 1 and perhaps, too. they witnessed the j 1 enactment of that last tragic drama j '< of the Lost Colony. whose fate is un-! ^ iecoroi d on the pages of history., ;But a little way to the south ofj Kitty Hawk?-possibly not mors : that1 r.ai'" a ir.\U - ?' h-.-re lay an in- ' it- . u'dcred by a deep cove, when 1 Sir Walter Raleigh's colonist's came, jT to America in l.38d-b7. It was t through this inlet that Captain .lohn > Whitf. Ralegh's colonial jrovenior. v sailed with the Lost <"oiony, to land on the shore of Roanoke Island, some four miles away. The in lei and 0 rove are shown on the -5 :ui White 11 maps, the cove heintg christen? (*1 Trinity IIavhor; and it is reeopded |'^ that the colonists stooped in Trinity Harbor for a while, to refit their shops and to take aboard fresh d water. Many years ago old Trinity Har- l; bos a: d the inset wove swallowed up L the shifting sands, though there is a current bolk I ;:i the cpas.t couh Xv try that they have survived, in part, 4,1 in the Flesh Ih?:.ds, some 20 small D fresh water iafc s lying immediately ';l To the south <?:' Kill Devi] ihiis. fi Thes, lakes have neither inlet 'iov 1? Wm cinUi. uri:>s.-- I'm- ii. tile df'pths oil! th<? ;avth. and tha naicr :s fresh and t> sui r t. despite the fact that to the ' c east thi salt Atlantic and to _th$ Kvest is the almost equally. saline 1 KOJ?:VVk? j 5-' The Fresh Potivls are peopleA! with h< black oa>;j>? vcral varieties o? pe.rch :i; and ?>thov. fresh vvater fish, and an- 1 'M' rally they arc visited by hundreds j of anglers for ?hc excel!erit spoi't hi they .1 f.foc d. ^ (.!;! Raleigh, .on Roanoke Is- la land; whence ,*'hv Lost Colony vail tu ilbvd after Cutf&ip john White in the ?au> siinma v of 1o87. to re- % turn to England for added supplies, s.c was situated on the east shore of the ?1 island; scarce half a do an miles from v< Kitty Haul. A star shaped mound Vtv is all that remains of ihe fort tp- ? Simv the R^ietg'h attempts jit col- jr? onizafion, though unsuccessful, pared pi the u.-.- for the more happily a?ip urcil .iamv.-town colony 20 tears hi later, it may he said that, beside W v.'inu ssing the dawn of aviation, tow- hi .rinse Kill Devi! Hills saw, in fact, pi the tattmriingsi of thai great HrUish oj ; - lr domain in America, "which Raleigh P< f-:ivisie:;eti, and therefore the birth Vi of the Crr-t6i) States. ?' V.'eftly hand wrought silver and st 1 ctvrize shoe buckles picked up by si summer visitors in the vicinity of ' id Trinity Harbor recently a re li thought likely to attest to the short 11 stay of the. Lost Colony there. Nii.n- s; eroos Indian a'row heads have been E found'there also. a Records of the early permanent h .settlers of the A tbemnrle "Colony, in y northeastern Xorth Carolina, reveal i h that the end of the old i)eiia:i traii a extending from the mountains to the h seaboard lay at the tip ol Ibo Curri a tuck peninsular, at what is now a Point Harbor, three miles across t: Currituck Sound froni Kitty Hawk Traditions of the region relate that a the Indian from the uplands made c annual pilgrimages to Point Harbor, V to exchange furs, grain and other ii commodities for lich and other prod- a uc'tx- of the const country, especially ii for quantities of youpon leaves. si The youpon is a bush indigenous r to the sandy beach strip on .which v K'tty Hawk is situated. Its dried r. leaves, when steeped, make an excel- t' lent substitute for tea?a substitute : v. that was used by all classes during the dire days of the Civil War, and " that stili is popular, Youpon tea is S' credited also with medicinal proper- g ties, and legend records that the In- *s dians visiting Point Harbor "many tc years ago, drank huge quantities of ei it to cleanse themselves of fevc-vs D and other ills. f< The name of the briilia.nt and ill- d' starred Aaron Burr, who almost sa won the presidency of the United ai States, later killed Alexander Hamil- . ft ton in a duel, and finally sank into ce utter discredit when his scheme for er founding a great new empire in the 1 of southwest collapsed, is linked in- ' separably with the legendry of the} at Kitty Hawk coast land. Burr's wl daughter, the beautiful Theodosia, wt married Governor Alston, of South ut Carolina; and in 1813, accompanied i Ci by her small son, she embarked from ; tei Charleston for ht'ew York aboard the : is small sloop Patriot, to visit hre j Be - 1 TH ONLY ONES WHO CAROLINA FAMOUS ' lather. The Patriot never reached New ' York. and the fate of Thebdbsia Burr Alston and the others aboard is 1 i mystery to this day. in the years j; that followed., a small summer col- j : rov came into being at Nags Head. 1 .hree miles south Kill Devil Hill . patronized chiefly by the families of 4 planters living in the Albemarle]' .onhty in North Carolina; Fifty : years after the disappearance of the j ' Patrio*. Dr William G. Pool ofp Elizabeth City, while spending th. ! summer at Nags Head with his Cam-j; By, was summoned to the bedside of {' a very old woman, a native of the 1 coast country. i$r, the wall of the humble cabin. 1 and utterly out of keeping with its I surroundings. Dr. Pool was amazed j to observe a painting of a beautiful; young woman. Asked whence it had 1 li.mtk*. tlie woman told him that li was in the cabin of a richly furnish- i ed sloop that had coin.e ashore at Nags Head ntnnv years before, with " >t a sou] aboard The picture. sVie'jj paic:, had been part of her husband's j of " P s cargo, which also j j ptati Included silks of surpassing rich- J j toss. beautiful silverware and other; j :r tides Indicating that pe rsons of j | veaiifi and ctflUmt ha.I been passea- j J rers on the vessel. Lacking money to pay tor bcr | Peatmen t. the old woman offered I U\ Poor the picture in recompense ^ or hi- se:vh-.y; and he. eagerly at -j epted it, meanwhilv speculating in-j evostedly upon its origin. Seme ; tears ifirap, in the course of his ending he ran ac oss an account of I he disappearance of Thcodosia Bur; j piston, and-, bei. a struck with tiled -.m. \ vi .. oimi.'ci!sji: ocivei'n r. nd the old woman's >1 ?ry. he ithmeiatdy look ' gdt In touch ith descendants of the Burr and .lstqn families. Belativ?s of the beautiful Theo sin later viewed the picture, and' .eel a red it undoubtedly a portrait of > or. The painting now hangH in a ii" :v in New York City. The very name of the resort, ash? Head, suggests tragic possibiii es as to the vanishing of Theodosia .11 rr Alston. The region was popuited. in the main, by castp^hi :otn ships wrecked on that stormy >a>". and these* were dependent ; _ y 1 pen the bouiity of the sea tat had dropped them th n-e. They garded the cargoes of wrecked tips as tightly theirs and, accord-? g t a legend that has persisted for *ar > a cc nfcury c? casionaily they ; sifted. Old Ocean lavish her gifts ^ hem > spurring the fates thai vcr over ships destined for doom. The legion relates that on stormy ights, the bankers, as the folk of ? Ni region were called. hung a ship's . " ntern to the head of a horse, or JUi tg, and slowly patrolled the beach jjj[ ith tHe animal, to gly_e the 3 on to passing skippers thai, a ves- j gj 1 was riding in easy harm wage ! QJi ose inshore. Thus*- who foolishly nj( . ii- nred in. it i:- told. s\ ift.l.y struck ?3? . l.i ion - shoals; and then* ships !p rvr pouruled to pieces, oi -grounded j jdj : deeply that they and their ear-' qj, ids were at the mercy of the Shffl'lgji nates. Ibi Some such fate, k i: doe hired, may Oil aVc befallen the lovely Theodokia. Hi; ho, with her earn parlous. may ?r( aye! been compelled t a watl: the SI lank so that no mice might be left ; Uj L the crime, i)r, or. ihe oth< . hu \1 1 rsor.s familiar with the ceast eeuft--I jgj r?YT?5'VJr> ?S>r.L... ?i... li.. say have abandoned ihe ship in a - ry :orhi. in a vain attempt to reach ^ Vore safely in their small boat:;. | gji Coast guards now regularly paivol ; ? fe length, of the North Carolina j ^ri lanks, with modern equipment iorifa! ilvaglng lives, and the dire toll ofj ni iamond Shoals, off Cape Haltev&s, iig| nd the rest of the perilous coast: ?3I as been reduced greatly in recent' ^ ears: but the mighty Atlantic in jilT er angry moods even vet occasion- i ------- ? ; ijj: liy shows her contempt for man and j=ji is pny works, as occurred scarcely i-jjj year ago, when Wo steamers went '1J shore, scarcely 60 niiles apart, in a ; fjj ajSc gale. |:S Kitty Hawk arid Kill Devil Hiiis.^a re little changed today from the : vj ommur.ity that Wilbur rfiicl Orvilie; gj fright chose for their experiment r" i aeronautics a quarter of a century ' ,ij go. The community- of Kitty Hawk es in a woodland on the landward jj de, near the convergence of Cur-if? ituclc and Albemarle Sounds. The ^ isitor finds a maze of winding sandy fc' rail ways, scarce wide enough for [Lr wo automobiles to pass abreast' p ith here and there a neat cottage. 13 Some three or four miles of driv- I jjv ig along the roadway leading to the ] [U iuthward brings one abruptly to- a ' qj real clearing?an immense level,j 3 indy plain, sparsely carpeted with a ingh rand grasses. At the south ! Qjj -iv bolder of the tract loom Kill iff evil Hills, the taller of which is t'2 3 ;et high. It was at the foot of tills ; igj trie, with the level, unobstructed 1 [jji md plain before them, that Orvillc- (LI id Wilbur Wright launched success- ^ illy a tiny, unstable airship on De-! S ruber 17, 1003, and thereby ush- [jjf ed in a new era in man's conquest! 3Jt ihc forces of nature. qjj The isolation which was one of the t S? tractive features of Kitty Hawk i bf ten the Wrights carried on their | irk there, soon will have become ] PJT terly a thing of the past. North j!jj[ irolina's remarkable highway sys- j af n, developed in the last decade, stretching out an arm toward Kill' OF vil Hills, and a concrete road al- j ?jf E WATAUGA DEMOCRAT?EVER" ready is under construction from j Jurrituclc courthouse, present north easternmost terminus of the hard-, mrxacing, down to Point Harbor, nearest mainland point to Kitty j iawjv. Private irfterests have obtai ued a] franchise for a highway bridge to! are'tch three miles from Point Harv?r to Kitty Hawk, Approval of the kvuv department has been procured tor the project, find bids are being! considered th s month for construe* :ion of the bridge, which is to be of | elr concrete and creosoted timber. 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