CSS Neuse Civil War Museum

See the raised hull of the Confederate ironclad CSS Neuse and the artifacts pulled from it at a state history museum in downtown Kinston.

100 N. Queen St., Kinston, NC 28501 · Kinston, NC

About CSS Neuse Civil War Museum

The CSS Neuse was a Confederate ironclad ram built along the Neuse River and scuttled near Kinston in March 1865 to keep it from Union troops. Its lower hull was raised in the early 1960s and gave up about 15,000 artifacts, the most found on any recovered Confederate vessel. The hull and a selection of those finds now fill the ground floor of this state historic site downtown, with exhibits on sailor life and the recovery. The mezzanine covers Lenoir County history and the Civil War in eastern North Carolina. Adults pay $5 plus tax and children 4 to 12 pay $3.

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