Discover NC: Lenoir County

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Field trip opportunities in Lenoir County

Caswell No.1 Fire Station Museum: The museum collects, preserves, displays, and interprets artifacts and images relating to fire fighting in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

CSS Neuse: An informative website that provides drawings, primary sources, and articles about the CSS Neuse and its role in the Civil War. Also find out about Richard Caswell, the first governor of the independent state of North Carolina.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Harmony Hall - Lenoir: Owned by North Carolina's first governor and site of a Civil War hospital, Harmony Hall is the only house of historical significance in Kinston.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Neuseway Nature Park, Planetarium, and Health and Science Center: A rich resource for Lenoir County, this center provides free health, astronomy, and nature and environmental experiences to school groups.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Wilbur A. Tyndall Tractor Museum: Visitors to the small town of Pink Hill will find Wilbur Tyndall's museum which is dedicated to tractors and other farm implements dating back to the early 1900s.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Learn more about Lenoir County

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Eyewitness to the flood: In this lesson, students will listen to oral history excerpts from Hurricane Floyd survivors and contrast their experiences with the experiences of the characters in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.; Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)

An intersection in Kinston, North Carolina: This is an intersection in Kinston, North Carolina. Kinston is the seat of Lenoir County.; Format: image/photograph

The Neuse River in the morning mist: This is the Neuse River in a cloak of morning mist.; Format: image/photograph

Old house in Kinston, North Carolina: This is an old home in Kinston, North Carolina. Kinston is the seat of Lenoir County.; Format: image/photograph

Preventing future floods: In Recent North Carolina, page 5.12; After Hurricane Floyd, some communities in eastern North Carolina began looking seriously at how they might better manage their floodplains to minimize the damage from future floods. This brief article includes a report about the strategy adopted by the city of Kinston.; Format: report

Protesting School Integration in Kinston: Students hold picket signs against integration at a Democratic rally held by Governor Dan K. Moore in Kinston, North Carolina in September 1965.; Format: image/photograph

Recent North Carolina: Primary sources and readings explore recent North Carolina (1975–present). Topics include politics, the economy, the environment, natural disasters, and increasing diversity.; Format: book (multiple pages)

The rushing Neuse River: The Neuse River rushes past on its way through Lenoir County.; Format: image/photograph

Tobacco field in Kinston, North Carolina: This is a tobacco field in Kinston, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Tractors at the Wilbur A. Tyndall Tractor Museum in Pink Hill, NC: These are tractors at the Wilbur A. Tyndall Tractor Museum in Pink Hill, North Carolina. Historian Wilbur Tyndall has collected John Deere, Massey, and other tractors over the years. He exhibits these and other farm implements, some of which date from the...; Format: image/photograph

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