unincorporated community
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in
Pasquotank County
Pasquotank County ( ) , from the North Carolina Collection's website at the
North Carolina
North Carolina ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, South Carolina to the south, Georgia (U.S. stat ...
, United States. It lies roughly midway on
NC 344
North Carolina Highway 344 (NC 344) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It serves to connect Elizabeth City with communities in southern Pasquotank County.
Route description
The highway's southern terminus lie ...
, at an elevation of 3 feet (0.9 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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chapter, and county recycling center.
Of historical significance are the facilities of the
dirigible
An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat ( lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power. Aerostats use buoyancy from a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding ...
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
Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City is a United States Coast Guard Air Station co-located at Elizabeth City Regional Airport in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, along the Pasquotank River near the opening of the Albemarle Sound. The Coast Gu ...
in 1942.Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields 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
Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City is a United States Coast Guard Air Station co-located at Elizabeth City Regional Airport in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, along the Pasquotank River near the opening of the Albemarle Sound. The Coast Gu ...
were instrumental in repelling German
U-boat
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attacks on
Allied
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