Wayne County

Aycock Birthplace

This typical nineteenth-century family farm, birthplace of Governor Charles Brantley Aycock, includes the main house, separate open-hearth kitchen, corn crib, and smokehouses. Scheduled groups get a genuine hands-on experience making butter or dipping candles for a small fee.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Cliffs of the Neuse State Park

Extending for 600 yards, this spectacular series of cliffs rises 90 feet above the Neuse River. Students will learn how these cliffs were formed and about the wildlife that live here when they visit Cliffs of the Neuse State Park.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Wayne County Museum

Students will learn about the history of Wayne County as well as the influence of historic events on the people and way of life in the area.

Format: article/field trip opportunity

Waynesborough Historic Village

Visitors to this recreated village will feel as if the have stepped back in time. "Waynesborough's focus begins in 1701 with the first Tuscarora visit and ends in 1900 with a complete economic and social shift to Goldsboro."

Format: article/field trip opportunity

An abandoned building in Eureka, NC

This is an abandoned building in Eureka, North Carolina.

Format: image

Bombs over Goldsboro

In Postwar North Carolina, page 1.8

In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 2.12

On January 24, 1961, a B-52 jet carrying two nuclear bombs crashed near Goldsboro, North Carolina. When one of the bombs was found, its arming mechanism had accidentally gone through all but one of the seven steps toward detonation, and a piece of the bomb containing uranium was never recovered.

Format: article

Cliffs of the Neuse in Seven Springs, NC

These are the Cliffs of the Neuse in Seven Springs, North Carolina. The area around the cliffs is protected as a State Park.

Format: image/photograph

Club members practicing shooting at Wildlife Conference

This black and white photograph shows 4-H club members practicing shooting outside at the Wildlife Conference in Indian Springs, North Carolina. A boy and a girl are lying on their stomachs on a wooden shooting platform. They both are taking aim with rifles....

Format: image/photograph

The fields of Goldsboro, NC, as seen from the window of a B-25

These are the fields of Goldsboro, NC, as seen from the window of a B-25 warplane from World War II.

Format: image/photograph

Gertrude Weil

In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 4.4

Biography of Gertrude Weil (1879–1971) of Goldsboro, who led the fight for women's suffrage in North Carolina.

Format: biography

By Jill Molloy and L. Maren Wood.

North Carolina History: A Sampler

A sample of the more than 800 pages of our digital textbook for North Carolina history, including background readings, various kinds of primary sources, and multimedia. Also includes an overview of the textbook and how to use it.

Format: (multiple pages)

North Carolina in the early 20th century

Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929.

Format: book (multiple pages)

Postwar North Carolina

Primary sources and readings explore the history of North Carolina and the United States during the postwar era (1945–1975).

Format: book (multiple pages)

Remembering Patriot women: Mary Slocumb

In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 5.7

Story, perhaps fictional or embellished, about the bravery of a North Carolina woman whose home was taken over by British Army officers during the American Revolution. The story, written in the 1840s, suggests how southerners wanted to remember the Revolution and women's role in it. Includes historical commentary.

Format: story/primary source

Revolutionary North Carolina

Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the era of the American Revolution. Topics include the Regulators, the resistance to Great Britain, the War for Indpendence, and the creation of new governments.

Format: book (multiple pages)

The Sudan Buccaneers in a parade in Wayne County

These are the Sudan Buccaneers in a special "ship" in a parade in Goldsboro, North Carolina. The Buccaneers benefit sick children in Sudan through fundraising.

Format: image/photograph

Trees in the Neuse River

These are trees in the Neuse River, where it winds through Goldsboro, North Carolina and passes past the mouth of the Little River.

Format: image/photograph

Resources on the web

On the Streets of Goldsboro: 1870 – 1920s

Wayne County Public Library's genealogy department has digitized the 1911/1912 Goldsboro City Directory, The City of Goldsboro, North Carolina, a history of the city, and photographs of Goldsboro street scenes and businesses from... (Learn more)

Format: website

Provided by: Wayne County Public Library