The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1927-06-03
THRONGS EXPECTED AT
VIRGINIA. DARE SHORES
Hundreds Will View Historic Kill Devil Hills
and Picturesque Surroundings
For First Time

Hundreds of Elizabeth Citi-
zens and other Northeastern
North Carolinians will hit the
Virginia Dare Trail from Eliz-
abeth City to Point Harbor in
Currituck County Saturday and
Sunday, June 4 and S to attend
the formal opening of Virginia
Dare Shores. 1t will be a new
experience to many who have
not become accustomed to the
present accessibility of the
coastland of Currituck and
Dare.
Several hundred fortunate folks
have been favored with courtesy
cards by the Carolina Development
Co.. sponsors Of Virginia Dare
Shores. emitting them to comfort
able transportation across Currituck
Sound from Point Harbor to Vir-
ginia Dare Shores. Buffet lunch
con will be provided all holders
of these courtesy cards. Courtesy
cards are Obtainable only at the
company's administrative offices at
the Southern Hotel.
Point HarbOr Is an hour and a
half motor ride from Elizabeth City
over a good road that Is always
good. 1t is just short ride in
a comfortable launch or yacnr across
the Sound from Point Harbor to
the coast. Boats will be provided
by the company, leaving Point Har-
Dor at 10 a. m., $50 p. m. and 9 30
p. m. leaving Virginia Dare Shores
at IL :45 p. NJ. 5 p. III. and 8 80 p.
m. The company IL prepared to
handle as many as a thousand
sightseers, one of their passenger
boats having a capacity of 200 peo-
pie. Capt. Dan Hayman is master
of transportation.
Ample parking space for auto
mobiles will be found at Point Har- Z
Dor and those who are not fortu-
nate enough to get over to the coast
will discover In Point Harbor itself
delightful picnic ground for a
days outing.
Hundreds who will 20 over to Vir-
ginia Dare Shores tomorrow and
Sunday will behold for the first time
the historic Kill Devil Hills where
the brFhers Wright made their
revolutionary airplane experiments
and flew the first pOwer-driyen air.
plane ever perfected by man. Near
by is picturesque Kitty Hawk on
One hand, and on the other hand
more picturesque Collington.
Visitors will find splendid pier
at Virginia Dare Shores, spaci-
Gus lunch room and fine pavilion.
They will find a bath house under
construction and other impressive
improvements. And they will find
grass growing on Virginia Dare
Shores, to the delight and surprise
of many who have an idea that the
whole coast Is a sandy waste like
Nags Head. But unlike Nags Head,
Virginia Dare Shores Is a flat cOun-
try and the walking distance be-
tween Kitty Hawk Bay and the
Atlantic Ocean is short and easy.
And so the selling Of Virginia Dare
Shores is getting under way. No
special effort is being made by the
Virginia Dare Shores company to
sell property locally; they will look
for their buyers in larger centers
of wealth and population, thru sales
offices to be opened in Norfolk, Raj
eigh, Winston-Salem. Asheville,
Washington, Baltimore. Pittsburgh.
Philadelphia, Atlantic City, Chicago,
Dayton, New York and Boston. In
the meantime they are assembling
and drilling their sales forces at
Elizabeth City and Offering the first
choice property to local people at
Il substantial discount, before their
sales forces go to the country at
large.
But there seems to be little doubt
that they will find scores Of local
buyers. Local interest in the deve.
lopment is running high and the
bridge over Currituck Sound, aU
thorized by the last General Assem-
bly,. is no longer remote pOssibil.
ity. 1t will be only a matter Of a
few years when Virginia Dare
Shores will be as accessible to
motorists-and not so far from Eliz-
abeth City-as Ocean View or Vir.
ginia Beach. Those who are bank.
ing on that bridge will buy lots at
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