When, in 1927, it was decided to erect a monument to commemorate the first controlled powered flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the place was considered so remote that Congress figured no one would ever deliberately visit such a fly- and mosquito-infested sand spit. So isolated was Kitty Hawk, that the planners assigned to the memorial task required a five-day round trip from Washington just to survey the site.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/recent-updates/business-military/kitty-hawk-spanning-time-and-distance