A unique pattern for sewing together a quilt that arose out of the Core Sound.

Pam Morris of the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center on Harkers Island walks us through the early history of whaling on the island.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.