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Hannah Crafts wrote The Bondwoman's Narrative, an epic-like story of a slave's life in the South and eventual escape to the North.

Local lore didn't agree on what the ship was used for. Was it dormitory for the WPA? A military ship converted to a barge? Or used a target practice during WWII?

Unearthed from the waters of the New River in the 1960s, the canoe is made from a single cypress log. According to its rings, the tree was 200 years old at the time of its harvesting.

The long leaf pine is used to harvest pine tar, pitch and turpentine. Once abundant in ENC, the long leaf pine's habitat has moved south, in part due to a lack of knowledge of forest management.

Invented by Richard Jordan Gatling of Murfreesboro, N.C., the Gatling gun is the earliest iteration of the modern machine gun.

Thirty years before the Wrights took flight at Kitty Hawk, an inventor in Murfreesboro, N.C., attempted his first flight off the top of a cotton gin.

The Cowan Musuem is home to all sorts of nifty inventions, including a 7-in-1 kitchen tool. But, the museum's curators may need to reevaluate what the device actually is.

The Confederate ironclad ship CSS Neuse was built to protect Goldsboro and deter Union troops from moving inland, but it hardly saw battle.

The typewriter found aboard a sunken ship off the Outer Banks was wired to an Enigma, a machine used by Nazi Germany to cipher messages during WWII. Now, the typewriter is being painstakingly restored at the NC Maritime Museum after decades on the sea floor.

Fred the horse was a part of the New Bern Fire Department for 17 years. The well-trained horse became known for its ability to navigate the city almost entirely on its own.