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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VN_the-whalehead-club-restoration_Corolla-NC.html
After second owner Ray T. Adams died in 1957, the Whalehead Club was used as a summer boy's school, housed a rocket fuel testing facility, and was proposed for resort development. With restoration in mind, Currituck County purchased the club in 19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VM_the-knights_Corolla-NC.html
Due to excellent wildfowl hunting conditions in the second half of the 19th century, private hunt clubs owned most of the land on the Currituck Outer Banks. In 1874 a group of wealthy Northeaster industrialists build the Lighthouse Club just south…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VL_the-caretakers-residence_Corolla-NC.html
Architectural drawings suggest that the caretaker's residence dates to the 1920s and was designed to house two families who worked for the Knights. Cleveland lewark, chief hunting guide and superintendent of the property, lived in one side of the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VK_ray-t-adams-landing-strip_Corolla-NC.html
When Ray T. Adams bought this estate for just $25,000 in 1940, he dreamed of opening a hunt club and selling parcels of land for real estate. He changed the name to the Whalehead Club and invited potential investors, politicians (including Dwight …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VJ_first-swimming-pool-on-the-outer-banks_Corolla-NC.html
The Whalehead Club has always been associated with wealth and leisure pursuits. When Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife, Marie-Louise LeBel, built their residence here in the 1920s, they made it as opulent as possible. The estate included the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VI_duck-blinds_Corolla-NC.html
When the last inlet to Currituck Sound closed in 1828, the water began to change. As rain, rivers, and streams poured in to the sound, the water became less salty and tall-grass marsh and wild celery attracted large flocks of migratory waterfowl i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6VH_currituck-beach-light-station_Corolla-NC.html
On December 1, 1875, the beacon of the Currituck Beach Lighthouse filled the remaining "dark spot" on the North Carolina coast between the Cape Henry light to the north and Bodie Island to the south. To distinguish the Currituck Beach Lighthouse f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6PZ_corolla-island-bridges_Corolla-NC.html
When Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife, Marie-Louise leBell, purchased this property in 1922, the Lighthouse Club, a hunting club, already existed on land just to the south. After the Knights completed a new private residence in 1925, they d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6PW_corolla-schoolhouse_Corolla-NC.html
Restoration began in the fall of 1999, revealing wonderful insights into life in this isolated coastal village.
Upon raising the building to repair rotten sills, workers discovered ship timbers in the foundation that were salvaged from shipwrec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6PV_boathouse_Corolla-NC.html
With its gracious proportions, unusual pink color, and sloping rooflines, the Corolla Island boathouse built by Edward Collings Knight Jr. and his wife complemented their main house.
Even more than the main house, the boathouse was the center o…