unincorporated community
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in
Pasquotank County
Pasquotank County , from the North Carolina Collection's website at the
North Carolina
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, United States. It lies roughly midway on NC 344, at an elevation of 3 feet (0.91 m). The community is home to Weeksville Elementary School, a Methodist church, gas station,
volunteer fire department
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,
Lions Club
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(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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chapter and county recycling center.
Of historical significance are the facilities of the
dirigible
An airship or dirigible balloon is a type of aerostat or lighter-than-air aircraft that can navigate through the air under its own power. Aerostats gain their lift from a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding air.
In early ...
manufacture TCom located on the former grounds of Naval Air Station Weeksville. Two dirigible hangars, one steel and one wooden, were constructed at NAS Weeksville in 1942.http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NC/Airfields_NC_NE.htm#weeksville NAS Weeksville The larger wooden hangar, one of the largest wooden structures in the world, succumbed to fire on August 3, 1995. The slightly smaller steel hangar, the
Weeksville Dirigible Hangar
The Weeksville Dirigible Hangar (former Naval Air Station Weeksville) is an airship manufacturing, storage and test facility originally built by the United States Navy in 1941 for servicing airships conducting anti-submarine patrols of the US coast ...
, one of the world's largest steel structures, remains as of 2015.
During
World War II
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flight operations out of NAS Weeksville were instrumental in repelling German
U-boat
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attacks on
Allied
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