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City in North Carolina, United States
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Kinston is the seat of Lenoir County in North Carolina's Coastal Plain.
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All about the CSS Neuse ironclad that, after being lit afire by the Confederates and sunk in the Neuse River in 1865 to avoid capture, has had its hull and artifacts salvaged and put on display in this building.
A replica of the vessel on display in a parkway along the Neuse where this ironclad sank.
On this site you'll find exhibits pertaining to the first governor of North Carolina and Revolutionary War hero, Richard Caswell.
This was Governor Caswell's home, only viewable from outside.
Not a whole lot to see here other than some interpretive signs, but it's where the Union expedition from New Bern routed the Confederacy in late 1862.
An even smaller monument, but this was a more significant battle in that a Union victory here in 1865 by combined forces over Braxton Bragg's resulted in the Confederate's abandoning the area along with their ironclad Neuse, in addition to being one in a number of factors leading up to Confederate General Joseph Johnston's surrender a month later.
Nature center with some animal habitats and planetarium.
Vivian Howard's popularized restaurant from the PBS show A Chef's Life.
Funky place with a retro 1970s theme. Kind of spendy though.
Kinston is on US 70 about midway between Goldsboro and New Bern. The only form of public transportation to speak of really is Greyhound which stops at Lunch Box at 522 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
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