Nags Head

Nags Head

      resort town, Dare county, eastern North Carolina, U.S. It is situated on Bodie Island (one of the Outer Banks barrier islands) between Roanoke Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, just south of Kitty Hawk. It was so named, according to legend, because unscrupulous shipwreckers (piracy) tied lanterns to the necks of ponies (“nags”) and marched them along the high dunes to simulate the lights of boats at anchor—a ruse that tricked captains into running their ships aground on the shoals, where their cargo was seized. The place now has a large cottage colony and is popular for boating, swimming, and beachcombing. High, constantly shifting sand formations run along the sandy spit, notably at adjacent Jockey's Ridge State Park; the park's rolling sands and dunes, which reach some 135 feet (40 metres) or more above the sea, are the highest sand dunes on the East Coast and attract sand skiers and hang gliders. Kill Devil Hills, between Nags Head and Kitty Hawk, is the site of the Wright brothers' (Wright, Wilbur and Orville) historic flights in 1903, and Roanoke Island is a short distance to the south. Nags Head was incorporated in 1923 (charter repealed 1949) and reincorporated in 1961. Pop. (1990) 1,838; (2000) 2,700.

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