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77000997 [1] Added to NRHP. August 19, 1977. Nags Head Beach Cottages Historic District, also known as the Nags Head Beach Cottage Row Historic District, is a national historic district located at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 41 contributing buildings dating from the late-19th and early-20th century.
February 9, 1979. ( #79000251) S of Nags Head on NC 12. 35°50′11″N 75°33′33″W. / 35.836389°N 75.559167°W / 35.836389; -75.559167 ( Bodie Island Lifesaving/Coast Guard Station) Nags Head. 3. Bodie Island Light Station. Bodie Island Light Station.
FIPS code. 37-45880 [ 4] GNIS feature ID. 1021599 [ 5] Website. nagsheadnc .gov. Nags Head is a town in Dare County, North Carolina, United States. It is a busy vacation spot because of its beaches and sand dunes of Jockey's Ridge. The population was 3,146 at the 2020 census.
December 4, 1953. Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area's steady winds.
U.S. Route 64 ( US 64) is an east–west United States highway that runs for 2,281 miles (3,672 km) from Nags Head in eastern North Carolina to just southwest of the Four Corners in northeast Arizona. The western terminus is at U.S. Route 160 in Teec Nos Pos, Arizona.
The current Bodie Island Lighthouse (pronounced “body island”) is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It stands 156 feet (48 m) tall and is located on the Roanoke Sound side of a portion of a peninsula that is the first part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
Jockey's Ridge State Park. / 35.96194°N 75.63417°W / 35.96194; -75.63417. Jockey's Ridge State Park is a North Carolina state park in Dare County, North Carolina in the United States. Located in Nags Head, North Carolina, it covers a 427-acre (1.73 km 2) [1] area, and includes the tallest active sand dune system in the eastern United ...
Added to NRHP. December 23, 2004. Mattie Midgett Store and House, also known as Nellie Myrtle Pridgen's Beachcomber Museum, is a historic home and general store located at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina. The store was built in 1914, and the house in 1933. The store is a two-story frame Outer Banks Shingle Style building with a hipped ...