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Location of Kinston inside North Carolina.
Kinston is a town/city in Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States.
It has been the governmental center of county of Lenoir County since its formation in 1791. Kinston is positioned in the coastal plains region of Eastern North Carolina.
In 2009, it was announced that Kinston was a recipient of the prestigious All-America City Award.
Harmony Hall, the earliest building in Kinston, was owned by North Carolina's first governor, Richard Caswell.
Kinston was created by an act of the North Carolina General Assembly in December 1762 as Kingston, with respect to King George III who had just recently ascended to the throne.
The bill to incorporate it was introduced by Richard Caswell, who made his home there and later served as the first Governor of the State of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780.
After victory in the American Revolution, the people retitled the town/city Kinston in 1784 to show the population's disavowal of royalty.
In 1833, Kinston briefly became Caswell, with respect to governor Richard Caswell, but the name was reverted to Kinston the following year.
In December 1791, an act was passed in the General Assembly to abolish Dobbs County and form Lenoir and Glasgow counties.
At that time, Kinston was designated the governmental center of county for Lenoir County.
Throughout this period, Kinston was an unincorporated town.
There was also a factory for the manufacturing of shoes for the military positioned in Kinston.
The Battle of Kinston took place in and around the town/city on December 14, 1862.
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Kinston also became a primary tobacco and cotton trading center.
By the start of the twentieth century, more than five million pounds of tobacco were being sold annually in Kinston's warehouses.
New industries were founded, including lumber and cotton mills, as North Carolina businessmen invested in refining their own crops.
Kinston was heavily impacted by flooding in 1996 and 1999.
Hurricane Fran hit the North Carolina coast on September 5, 1996 and brought 16 inches (406 mm) of precipitation to the area., causing the Neuse River to flood portions of the city.
The National Register of Historic Places lists the American Tobacco Company Prizery, Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Freight Depot, Baptist Parsonage, Robert L.
Canady House, CSS Neuse, Hill-Grainger Historic District, Hotel Kinston, Jesse Jackson House, Kennedy Memorial Home Historic District, Kinston Apartments, Kinston Baptist-White Rock Presbyterian Church, Kinston Battlefield, Kinston Commercial Historic District, Kinston Fire Station-City Hall, Lenoir County Courthouse, Mitchelltown Historic District, Peebles House, Peoples Bank Building, Queen-Gordon Streets Historic District, Standard Drug No.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.4% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 24.9% from 25 to 44, 24.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The North Carolina Department of Public Safety (formerly the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) operates the Dobbs Youth Development Center juvenile correctional facility in Kinston.
As with most of North Carolina, Kinston is predominately Protestant with large concentrations of Baptists, Methodists, and various other evangelical groups.
The Roman Catholic improve in Kinston has seen steady expansion over the years with the migration of Hispanic workers to the area.
Also, Catholic migrants have also come from the northeastern United States who work for the North Carolina Global Trans - Park and in close-by Greenville, North Carolina.
Kinston at one time had a sizeable Jewish community.
Temple Israel, Kinston's only Jewish church, has only 20 members (families) and does not have a rabbi.
Kinston High School Lenoir County Early College North Lenoir High School Kinston Charter Academy Heritage Place, a county-wide access for The NC Department of Archives, is positioned in the rear of Lenoir Community College's Library.
It homes a large compilation of small-town and county-wide family histories, various books on local, state, and US history, newspapers, etc.
The Neuse Regional Library fitness is headquartered in Kinston and operates chapters in Kinston, La - Grange, Pink Hill, as well as locations in Greene and Jones Counties. The Lenoir County Confederate Memorial, the Caswell family cemetery, and the Lenoir County Korean and Vietnam War Memorial are positioned at the site.
The Cultural Heritage Museum (CHM) was organized in the winter of 2000 on South Queen Street as a new economic evolution catalyst for Kinston, Lenoir County and easterly North Carolina.
One of Kinston's most notable and beautiful facilities is Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center or GPAC.
Kinston is also home to notable restaurants and Mother Earth Brewing & Spirits.
Kings BBQ is positioned on Highway 70 East near Lenoir Community College and has been a prominent stop among locals and for citizens traveling to the beach for decades.
The James Beard Award Winning Restaurant Chef & the Farmer started by Vivian Howard and Ben Knight is positioned in downtown Kinston.
Also a proponent of sustainable practices and small-town ingredients, Mother Earth Brewing was established in Kinston in the summer of 2008.
Other businesses include Buy Local Gallery, The Overland Gallery, Ginger 108, Olvera Street Tacos, Boiler Room Oysters and Burgers, O'Neil Bed and Breakfast, The Bentley B&B, and Lenoir County Farmers Market.
Since 1882, The Kinston Free Press has been presented in Kinston.
Local attractions include CSS Neuse Museum, Neuseway Nature Center, Kinston Dog Park, Kinston Country Club Est 1924, Annual BBQ Festival on the River in May, Kinston Center for the Arts, New Arts District Neighborhood, Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center, Global Transit Park (GTP), a combined airport and industrialized complex advanced by the state in Lenoir County; Grainger Stadium; Caswell Center, and Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
Kinstons' Bill Fay Park is home to the Annual Allen Pearson Foundation Softball Tournament held each year annually amid the first weekend in October.
Annual festivities in Kinston include the Sand in the Streets concert series held at Pearson Park, the prominent train rides, nature center, and planetarium positioned at Neuseway Park, and the Festival on the Neuse.
See also: Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame Kinston's Grainger Stadium is home to the Down East Wood Ducks, a Class A-Advanced Minor League Baseball team of the Carolina League that will begin play in 2017. It was previously home to the Kinston Indians minor league baseball team as well as youth and college level baseball tournaments.
The Kinston Drag Strip hosts a range of motor sports affairs throughout the year.
Kinston has three golf courses: the Kinston Country Club, Falling Creek Country Club, and Bill Fay Park Par 3 Golf Course.
Barnet Park is home to Kinston Disc Golf.
In 1956, Kinston was the site of a rare, perfect game of billiards, as Willie Mosconi sank 150 balls in a row in one inning against Jimmy Moore. Barnet Park - Kinston Disc Golf Air: Kinston is served by the Kinston Regional Jetport (IATA: ISO, ICAO: KISO).
Kinston Regional Jetport is the site from which Bill Harrelson of Fredericksburg, VA embarked and to which he returned on his Guinness world-record-setting "around-the-globe-over-the-poles" flight in his custom-built Lancair, N6 - ZQ over the time reconstruction - Dec, 2014 - Jan, 2015.
I-95 is the closest Interstate Highway to Kinston.
Kinston is not served directly by passenger trains.
Bus: Kinston is served by Greyhound.
The chief highway in Kinston is US 70, an east-west highway that provides access to the North Carolina coast as well as primary cities to the west such as Raleigh and Greensboro and I-95.
Other highways that serve Kinston include US 258, NC 11, NC 58, NC 55, and NC 148.
Malcolm Howard, federal judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina The Lenoir County Historical Association.
The Story of Kinston and Lenoir County.
200 Years of Progress: A Report of the History and Achievements of the People of Lenoir County, 1776-1976.
Coastal Plain and Fancy: The Historic Architecture of Lenoir County and Kinston, North Carolina.
The Lenoir County Historical Association.
Annals of Progress: The Story of Lenoir County and Kinston, North Carolina.
North Carolina School Video Catalog The Neuse River (35.270676, -77.585130) North Carolina Department of Public Safety.
"Dobbs Youth Development Center 3060 Dobbs Farm Road Kinston, N.
CSS Neuse State Historic Site "Kinston Has a Rich Tradition in Baseball".
Lenoir County North Carolina Parks Kinston Chamber of Commerce Kinston Convention & Visitors Bureau Municipalities and communities of Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States State of North Carolina
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Populated places established in 1762 - County seats in North Carolina - Cities in Lenoir County, North Carolina
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