History Here
"History Here" is a weekly segment on Public Radio East showcasing mysterious artifacts and objects of cultural significance on display at museums across Eastern North Carolina.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Invented by Richard Jordan Gatling of Murfreesboro, N.C., the Gatling gun is the earliest iteration of the modern machine gun.
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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.
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The Confederate ironclad ship CSS Neuse was built to protect Goldsboro and deter Union troops from moving inland, but it hardly saw battle.
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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.
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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.