Talk:Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

message: why is it called that? - —Preceding unsigned comment added by WillC (talk • contribs) 
"The 2005 solo album, Tyranny  Souls by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson features a track named Kill Devil Hill. The song is a reference to the discovery made by the Wright Brothers." What did the Wright Brothers discover? riffic 17:34, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old remarks from 2007 

message: Hi! Everywhere I read the first flight was in Kitty Hawk. But the hill, where it happened, is located in Kill Devil Hills. So why is not Kill Devil Hills the place of the first flight? Henning Blatt (talk) 22:16, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Because at that time it was a bunch of hills.- Sinneed
The text is misleading and should be reworked.  The first flight didn't "actually take place in Kill Devil Hills" because KDH didn't exist at the time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.3.89.107 (talk) 01:34, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  First flight 

message: There is a merge flag there, pointing here, but no discussion section here. Do we really need a discussion?  While deletion seems pointless, is there a reason to expect objection to the merge?  I would say the redirect page should be semi-protected, or the article will just be recreated by the spammers who have been adding empty sections and minor silliness.- Sinneed 04:19, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I decided to wp:Be Bold and made the redirect.  Easily reverted if any disagree.- Sinneed 04:47, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Since my bold redirect was promptly undone and the article damaged, I more-or-less abandoned this idea.  With the blocking of several editors, the spam has died down.  Any further comment, discussion, or opinion?- Sinneed
*Oppose - High schools are considered notable and therefore merit their own page. We redirect elementary and middle schools but not high schools. TerriersFan (talk) 17:45, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

text: *Comment - actually there is an AfD practice of strongly discouraging (and closing with "Keep") AfDs for high schools because they are almost always notable, and the AfD wastes everyone's time that could be better spent doing other things for the encyclopedia.- Sinneed 22:35, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[First Flight High School]] merge 

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message: This was just added as an External link, because it offers a full story of how Kill Devil Hills got its name:
* Story of how Kill Devil Hills got its name (outerbanksdistilling.com)
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Rum... was referred to as “kill-devil.”  ...[a popular name] for rum at this time[, the 1650's].  The trade in rum soon expanded to the colonies in New England, which is when the Legend of Kill Devil may have arrived on the Outer Banks through shipwrecks.  The more than 1,000 shipwrecks along the Outer Banks have led it to be named “The Graveyard of the Atlantic,” and some of the wreckage contained barrels of rum. The town of Kill Devil Hills is believed to have been named for either barrels of rum of the brand name Kill Devil or for a rum that was “strong enough to kill the devil.” Some believe the ships were lured close to shore on dark nights by a lantern hung from a horse’s (or nag’s) neck and walked along the dunes, causing the ships to wreck on the shallow shoals. This practice gives the adjacent town of Nags Head its name. The story continues with these plundered barrels of rum being hid behind the hill which is now the site of the Wright Brothers Monument.  In 1873 the area Lifesaving Station adopted the name Kill Devil Hills followed by the town in 1953.
It would be excellent to have the complete story of the etymology added into the body of the article.  So what is needed now are sufficiently strong references. --Concord19 (talk) 15:59, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology