Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

Plea for establishment of an airport near the Kitty
Hawk monument.
Doors of Wright Memorial, Kill Devil Hill, N.C. From a
Photograph by F. S. Lincoln 1922. Technology Review,
Jan. 1939, vol. 41, cover.
U.S. Dept. of the Interior. Kill Devil Hill National
Memorial. [New York]: Polygraphic Company of
America, Apr. 1942, 6 pp., +illus.
Reprinted Washington, D.C.: Government Printing
Office, 1948 and 1949.
Descriptive leaflet issued by the National Park
Service which administers the Memorial.
Saunders, Keith. The Wright Memorial Museum.
National Aeronautics and Flight Plan, Feb. 1953, vol.
32, p. 1.
Announcement of plans for the establishment of a
memorial museum at Kill Devil Hill.
Brown, Aycock, and Whitener, Ralph V. Where It All
Began. Air Force, Nov. 1953, vol. 36, pp. 47, 63.
Discusses plans for the 1953 fiftieth anniversary
celebration of the Wright brothers 1903 flights at Kill
Devil Hill, N.C., including an account of the plans by
the Kill Devil Hills Memorial Association, the
National Park Service, the Air Force Association, and
the North Carolina Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered
Flight Commission to reconstruct the Wrights original
site at Kill Devil Hill.
Fifty Years of Flight. Travel, Nov. 1953, vol. 100, pp.
17—19, +illus.
Deals with the Wright Brothers National Memorial
at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and the annual commemorative
ceremonies held there.
Restoring Wright Brothers Camp of 1903. Journal of
the Society of Architectural Historians, Oct. 1954, vol.
13, pp. 28—29, +illus.
Describes the two original Wright buildings at Kill
Devil Hill, N.C., restored by the National Park
Service, as a part of the fiftieth anniversary of the first
powered flights by the Wright brothers.
And Kitty Hawk It will Remain. U.S. Air Services, Jan.
1955, vol. 40, p. 6.
Editorial quoting extensively from a letter by
Marvin W. McFarland, editor of The Papers of Wilbur
and Orville Wright, to Aycock Brown regarding the
proper designation, Kitty Hawk or Kill Devil Hill, for
the area in North Carolina where the Wrights conducted
their early experiments and flights.
Monuments and Museums
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs. Revising Boundaries of Wright Brothers
National Memorial, North Carolina. Report [To
Accompany H. R. 5488]. April 16, 1959. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1959, 3 pp. (86th
Congress, 1st Session. House. Report No. 274).
H. R. 5488 was submitted by Rep. Herbert C.
Bonner of North Carolina, March 10, 1959. The bill
was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular
Affairs, passed the House May 4 and the Senate June
12.
Provides for the addition of approximately 11 acres
of land. One tract of approximately 95 acres contains
the landing site of the fourth and longest of the Wright
brothers historic flights on December 17, 1903.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs. Revising the Boundaries of Wright
Brothers National Memorial, North Carolina. Report
[To Accompany H. R. 5488]. June 9, 1959. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1959, 3 pp. (86th
Congress, 1st Session. Senate. Report No. 377).
Similar to House Report No. 274.
An Act to Revise the Boundaries of Wright Brothers
National Memorial, North Carolina, and for Other
Purposes. United States Statutes at Large, 1959, vol. 73,
p. 91.
Approved June 23, 1959 (Public Law 86-59).
East, Omega G. Wright Brothers National Memorial.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1961,
64 pp. (National Park Service. Historical Handbook
Series. No. 34)
A guide book succinctly presenting the achievements
of the Wright brothers and the significant
events in their lives.
Originally authorized by Congress on March 2,
1927, as the Kill Devil Hill Monument National
Memorial to commemorate the Wrights first successful
flights in a man-carrying, power-driven heavierthan-air
aeroplane, the name was changed to the
Wright Brothers National Memorial, December 1,
1953.
Originally administered by the War Department,
the area transferred to the National Park Service,
August 10, 1933, includes the reconstructed Wright
brothers living quarters and hangar, a granite memorial
placed by the National Aeronautic Association in
1928 to mark the take-off point of the 1903 flights, a
reconstruction of the original single-rail starting track,
Kill Devil Hill, used by the Wrights during their gliding
experiments, 1900-1903, and the Wright
Memorial shaft, dedicated November 19, 1932.
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