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A replica of the vessel on display in a parkway along the Neuse where this ironclad sank.
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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.
Nature center with some animal habitats and planetarium.
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.
On this site you'll find exhibits pertaining to the first governor of North Carolina and Revolutionary War hero, Richard Caswell.
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.