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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.

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  • Lesson plan: Let's Be Firefighters!!! In this lesson, we will look at firefighters and the role they play in our community. This lesson will familiarize the students with the types of equipment used by firefighters, the special clothing worn by firefighters, and the responsibilities each of them have in our community.

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  • Catawba Firefighter's Museum: This museum has exhibits showing the history of firefighting in Catawba County with examples of firefighting equipment from earlier times.
  • 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.
  • Fort Defiance: Visitors to this historic home will see one of the most unique restorations in the county. The home contains over 300 pieces of original furnishings and artifacts from the Revolutionary War period and later.

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Built in 1895, this building housed city hall, the county jail, a stable and the Caswell No.1 Fire Station. A museum has been created in the old building to tell the story of fire fighting in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Hours are: Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., or by appointment for groups. Caswell No.1 Fire Station Museum 252-527-1566 or Group Appointments 252-522-4676

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