Lenoir County, North Carolina

Jesse Jackson House is a historic home located near Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was built about 1840, and is a two-story, five bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof, sits on a brick foundation, and has flanking concave shouldered chimneys. The front facade features a one-story porch featuring a diminutive entablature supported by wooden pillars.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

Jackson Heights is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lenoir County, North Carolina, United States. Its population was 1,141 as of the 2010 census.

Richard Caswell (August 3, 1729 – November 10, 1789) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the first and fifth governor of the state of North Carolina from 1776 to 1780 and from 1785 to 1787. He also served as a senior officer of militia in the Southern Theater of the American Revolutionary War. He was a signatory of the Continental Association and thus considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Caswell Developmental Center is a center for adults with intellectual disabilities and other developmental disabilities in Kinston, North Carolina, United States. The Center started in 1911 and is still operating today.

WRNS-FM is an FM radio station located in Kinston, North Carolina in the United States. Its format is contemporary country. Broadcasting at 95.1 MHz, the station has a non-directional signal of 100,000 watts, that reaches "from the capital to the coast". The station has served Kinston and eastern North Carolina since the 1960s, when it was WFTC-FM. At one time, it was the only country station in the area and had one of the highest market shares of any station. Known for its generosity, the station has held a radiothon for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital annually for the past 5 years. The station is constantly ranked as the #1 station in its market by Arbitron. The WRNS-FM transmitter antenna is located on WCTI-TV's tower north of Trenton, North Carolina. Studios are located in New Bern. In September 2017, Dick Broadcasting announced the purchase of Alpha Media stations in three markets — 18 stations and two translators in total, at a purchase price of $19.5 million. The acquisition of WRNS-FM by Dick Broadcasting was consummated on December 20, 2017. Jim Mantel, who spent 18 years on WGAR-FM in Cleveland and was named to the Country Radio Hall of Fame in 2017, retired in 2018 after hosting the morning show since 2010, joined by Crystal Legends in 2012. Bobby Bones moved from co-owned WQSL/WQZL to replace Mantel, and Legends, also program director, moved to middays.

WRNS (960 kHz) is an AM radio station broadcasting a sports gambling format featuring programming from VSiN Radio, as well as an affiliate for Carolina Panthers NFL football. Licensed to Kinston, North Carolina, United States, the station is owned by Dick Broadcasting, through licensee Dick Broadcasting Company, Inc. of Tennessee.

WELS-FM (102.9 MHz), also known as Beach Boogie and Blues 102.9 is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Kinston, North Carolina, United States. The station is owned by Curtis Media Group, via licensee Eastern Airwaves, LLC., and broadcasts a format consisting of rhythmic oldies and Carolina beach music, targeting eastern North Carolina. The station's programming is also heard in nearby Greenville on full-signalled WNCT (1070 AM), in addition to FM translator signals in New Bern, Jacksonville and Winterville/Greenville. WELS-FM also features news programming from North Carolina News Network.

Cedar Dell, also known as Kennedy Memorial Home, is a historic plantation house located near Falling Creek, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It was originally constructed about 1820 as a two-story, three bay, Federal style brick dwelling with a side-hall plan. It was enlarged to five bays wide and converted to a Victorian Gothic central hall plan mansion. The front facade features a one-story Eastlake-style porch with a low roof topped by a wrought iron balustrade and the rear facade has a two-tier porch. Also on the front facade is a large bay window with a roof identical to that on the porch. The house and property were deeded for use as an orphanage in 1912.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is located in the Kennedy Memorial Home Historic District.

Temple Israel is a Reform synagogue located in Kinston, North Carolina. Established by Eastern European Jews in 1903, it is one of the oldest synagogues in North Carolina. Having started and functioning as an Orthodox congregation during its first fifty years, it eventually transformed into a Reform congregation.

Kennedy Memorial Home Historic District, also known as Cedar Dell, is a historic farm and national historic district located near Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 29 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites and 5 contributing structures. The district includes an orphanage owned by the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina and constructed from 1914 to 1959. Located in the district is the separately listed Federal style Cedar Dell plantation home. Other contributing resources are the Jar Room/Shop (1920s), potato curing barn (1920s), Pollock Cottage (1936), Kennedy Memorial Home Baptist Church (1956), Jones Swimming Pool (1957), Cedar Dell Cemetery (1830s-1929), and Brogden Food Locker (1950s).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

The Battle of Kinston was fought on December 14, 1862, in Lenoir County, North Carolina, near the town of Kinston, as part of the Goldsboro Expedition of the American Civil War. A Union expedition led by Brig. Gen. John G. Foster left New Bern in December to disrupt the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad at Goldsborough. The advance was stubbornly contested by Brig. Gen. Nathan Evans's brigade near Kinston Bridge on December 14, but the Confederates were outnumbered and withdrew north of the Neuse River in the direction of Goldsborough. Foster continued his movement the next day, taking the River Road, south of the Neuse River.

Mitchelltown Historic District is a national historic district located at Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina. It encompasses 204 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Kinston. The buildings include notable examples of Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture and date between 1885 and 1941. Notable buildings include the Adolphus Mitchell House (c. 1885), W. A. Mitchell House (c. 1905), Luther P. Tapp House (c. 1916), H. B. W. Canady House, and Robert B. Scott Bouse.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.