The Kitty Hawk Company was formed in 1929 with the chief purpose of constructing a toll bridge over the Currituck Sound from Point Harbor to Kitty Hawk, to collect tolls, and to develop land in the Kitty Hawk beach area. This included selling lots, building roads, and providing necessary infrastructure to the development. On July 7, 1930, the Wright Memorial Bridge Company was formed with the same purposes as the Kitty Hawk Company.
Wright Memorial Bridge Company and Kitty Hawk Company Records
33MSS-13
1929 - 1958
English
The Kitty Hawk Company was formed in 1929 with the chief purpose of constructing a toll bridge over the Currituck Sound from Point Harbor to Kitty Hawk, to collect tolls, and to develop land in the Kitty Hawk beach area. This included selling lots, building roads, and providing necessary infrastructure to the development. On July 7, 1930, the Wright Memorial Bridge Company was formed with the same purposes as the Kitty Hawk Company.
This collection includes a notebook of meeting minutes of the Wright Memorial Bridge Company and the Kitty Hawk Company, as well as stock certificates, financial records, and correspondence.
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Outer Banks History Center.
Stokes, Betty
Outer Banks History Center
This collection is arranged into two series: meeting minutes and company records.
Available for research.
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Encoded by Kelly Grimm, August, 2009
The Kitty Hawk Company was formed in 1929 with the chief purpose of constructing a toll bridge over the Currituck Sound from Point Harbor to Kitty Hawk, to collect tolls, and to develop land in the Kitty Hawk beach area. This included selling lots, building roads, and providing necessary infrastructure to the development. The original directors were: R. Bruce Etheridge, W. G. Gaither, W. O. Saunders, L. C. Blades, Charles W. Harrison, T. S. White, D. M. Warren, and D. W. Bagley. On July 7, 1930, the Wright Memorial Bridge Company was formed with the same purposes as the Kitty Hawk Company. It was founded by W. G. Gaither, L. C. Blades and W. L. Jones. The company ceased operation after the state took over the function of collecting tolls on Wright Memorial Bridge.
[Identification of item], 33MSS-13, Wright Memorial Bridge Company and Kitty Hawk Company Records, Outer Banks History Center, Manteo, N.C., U.S.A.
Donated by Betty Stokes
Additional information on topics found in this collection may be found in the Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS) http://mars.archives.ncdcr.gov/.
This collection features a notebook with meeting minutes for both the Kitty Hawk Company and the Wright Memorial Bridge Company. Certificates of incorporation, as well as bylaws and amendments, are included for both companies. In addition to the meeting minutes, there is also a folder containing stock certificates, financial records, as well as correspondence. The majority of correspondence is from the 1950s after the company went defunct, regarding the investigation into land that may have still belonged to the company.
This collection is arranged into two series: meeting minutes and company records.