Civil War Trails

Kinston & Lenoir County
Welcomes
Civil War Trails

Members of the Historical Preservation Group( Cindy Brochure, Jane Phillips and Lyle Holland) and Battlefield Commission ( Lonnie Blizzard) started meeting with a group in 2002 and for the next year and a half worked on Civil War Trails coming to North Carolina. The NC Department of Cultural Resources, NC Department of Transportation and the NC Department of Commerce put their stamp of approval on the project and gave it their full support.

A series of meetings took place with the Kinston people being a part of the planning process. The Kinston group made sure that the Battle of Wyse Fork and the First Battle of Kinston was included in the first CWT brochure published for North Carolina. Cindy Brochure and Jane Phillips met with groups in Wayne, Craven and Carteret Counties and introduced them to Civil War Trails and they all became a part of the Trail System

Funding for the Lenoir County Civil War Trails markers came from the NC Dept of Transportation and the Lenoir County Convention and Visitors Bureau Tourism Development Authority.

At the present time Lenoir County has ten markers.