The Flyway Club is a historic shooting club at 221 Marsh Causeway in

Knotts Island, North Carolina Knotts Island is a marshy island and a small unincorporated community. The island is shared by Currituck County, North Carolina and Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, bounded by the Currituck Sound, North Landing River, Back Bay, and Knotts ...

. Located on more than facing Currituck Sound on the west side of Knotts Island, it is one of the oldest surviving fowl hunting clubs in the state. Its main lodge was built about 1920, and rebuilt in a near replica in 1960 after being destroyed by fire. The lodge also includes a large U-shaped farm building, also built about 1920, that housed the club staff and farming equipment. The club was established by

Ogden Mills Reid Ogden Mills Reid (May 16, 1882 – January 3, 1947) was an American newspaper publisher who was president of the '' New York Herald Tribune''. Early life Reid was born on May 16, 1882 in Manhattan. He was the son of Elisabeth ( née Mills) Reid ( ...

, and remained in the Reid family until 2013, when it was acquired by the Conservation Fund. Twenty-six acres of the club's property was listed on the

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in 2015.

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Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina Buildings and structures completed in 1920 Buildings and structures in Currituck County, North Carolina National Register of Historic Places in Currituck County, North Carolina {{CurrituckCountyNC-NRHP-stub

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