2612 W. Vernon Ave., Kinston, North Carolina. County/parish: Lenoir.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 11, 2001. NRIS 00000444.
1 contributing structure.CSS Neuse ( NOOSE) was a steam-powered ironclad ram of the Confederate States Navy that served in the latter part the American Civil War and was eventually scuttled in the Neuse River to avoid capture by rapidly advancing Union Army forces. In the early 1960s, she produced approximately 15,000 artifacts from her raised lower hull, the largest number ever found on a recovered Confederate vessel. The remains of her lower hull and a selection of her artifacts are on exhibit in Kinston, North Carolina at the CSS Neuse Civil War Museum, a North Carolina State Historic Site. The ironclad is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47721062