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Dare County was established in 1870 and is named in honor of Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in America.
The fifth township, Nags Head, consisted of all of Roanoke Island as well as the north banks from Oregon Inlet to the south edge of the community of Kitty Hawk. It was nearly 100 years later, in 1870, that the General Assembly voted to take away these parts of Currituck, Hyde, and Tyrrell to form a new county.
In 1874, the United States Lifesaving Service was begun by building a chain of seven lifesaving stations along the Outer Banks, at the points of greatest danger to ocean going vessels.
Richard Etheridge became America's first black lifesaving station keeper with his appointment to the Pea Island post in 1880.
In 1902, Reginald Fessenden made the first application of a successful, commercially adaptable technique of radio communications in North America and perhaps the entire world.
Performing one of the most important events of the twentieth century, Orville Wright flew “The Flyer” 120 feet in 12 seconds on December 17, 1903, in Kill Devil Hills.
On December 17, 1903, two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, made the first successful flights in motor-driven, heavier-than-air machines, thus ushering in the age of human flight.
After leaving North Carolina, Fessenden went on to establish the first commercial Trans-Atlantic two-way radio-telegraph service in 1905, two years before the world renowned Marconi.
Then, in 1906, Fessenden's station in Massachusetts broadcasted the world's first radio program for entertainment.
On March 1 1940, the Dare County Board of Commissioners appointed a committee to acquire property and begin planning for the construction of a publicly owned airport.
Late in 1940, an ambitious project was started – “traveling libraries” – the forerunner of a modern bookmobile.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States Navy considered a Naval Auxiliary Air Station at Cape Hatteras.
On July 27, 1942, a mass flight of Civil Air Patrol aircraft left Charlotte, Asheville, Elkin and Winston-Salem for Skyco Airport on Roanoke Island with direct orders not to land at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station under construction on the north end of the Island.
The facility was opened as a Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) and officially commissioned on March 3, 1943.
In early April 1943, a squadron of F4U Corsairs came to NAAS Manteo.
In December 2002, the Dare County Library Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit is incorporated.
On May 29, 2008 a completely renovated and expanded Hatteras Library opened to the public.
In 2008, The Dare County Library Foundation sponsored a first “Winter Enrichment Series” of adult humanities programs at all three libraries.
In 2012, eBook lending began.
"The Lost Colony," performed at the Waterside Theater on Roanoke Island, is the oldest-running outdoor symphonic drama in the country, celebrating its 80th season in 2017.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HEC Group USA | 1979 | $284.9K | 5 | - |
| Webster County | 1951 | $26.2M | 150 | 16 |
| St John Land Co | - | $51.0M | 50 | - |
| Lincoln County CU | 1957 | $370,000 | 50 | - |
| Livingston County | - | $1.7M | 125 | 16 |
| Escambia County Sheriff's Office | - | - | 693 | 3 |
| City of Vandalia | - | $890,000 | 7 | - |
| Caldwell County | - | $680,000 | 50 | - |
| Putnam County | 1849 | $1.9M | 50 | - |
| Butler County Care Facility | 1803 | $19.0M | 350 | 5 |
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