NC Gazetteer

Corolla

Also known as: Currituck Beach
A community in Currituck County
… community on Currituck Banks, E Currituck County. Known as Currituck Beach until 1895, when a post office was est. there and named Corolla. Whalehead Club built there in the 1920s, later used as a summer school for boys and now open to visitors as part of park. A lighthouse there, the last major one constructed on the Outer Banks, was first lighted on December 1, 1875.