1. Eastern North CarolinaNational Heritage Area Public Meetings Lake Waccamaw, Kinston, & Elizabeth City March 2011 This project received funding from Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
2. Tonight’s Agenda Welcome & Introductions Overview of Planning Project& Update Overview of Heritage Area Project Breakout Session & Discussion Report Back to Larger Group Next Steps Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
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4. Site visits - over 100 sites in 40 counties (October 2010 through Mar 2011)
11. Finalize Feasibility Study report and submit to National Park Service and to Congress (end of Jan 2011) Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
12. What is a National Heritage Area? A National Heritage Area (NHA) is a place designated by the United States Congress where natural, cultural, historic, and recreational resources combine to form a cohesive, nationally significant landscape arising from patters of human activity shaped by geography. Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
13. What National Heritage Areas are NOT… National heritage areas do not appear to have directly affected the rights of property owners. To address property concerns, the designating legislation of 13 of the 24 heritage areas and management plans of at least 6 provide explicit assurances that the areas will not affect property owners’ rights. GAO Report, March 30, 2004 Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
14. 49 NHAs in the United States Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
15. Other NHAs in North Carolina Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
16. Eastern North Carolina – Feasibility Study Before Congress considers designation of a National Heritage Area, it needs information about the quality of the resources and whether the resources and the region meet the established criteria for an NHA. Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
17. Eastern North Carolina – Study Area Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
18. Criteria of a Feasibility Study Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
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27. What We Have Learned… Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
53. Review the Draft Report and comments and write letters of support
54. Be an Ambassador and help spread the wordEastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
55. What we need to know… What are the places that you like to visit or tell others to visit? What do you see as the heritage of Eastern North Carolina? What are the important stories of Eastern North Carolina? (these don’t necessarily have to be from the past) Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
56. Next Steps… What happens after today? Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
57. How to Communicate Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
58. August R. Carlino www.hanburypreservation.com/active_projects/encnha This project received funding from Eastern North Carolina National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
Editor's Notes
History/Settlement and Colonial HistoryHistoric Halifax; Roanoke; Secota; Brunswick Village
History/PlantationsHistoric Hope Plantation; Poplar Grove Plantation
History/African AmericansWilmington’s 1898 Memorial; Montfort Marines Museum; Tillery Resettlement Farm; pea Island lifesavers; Jarvisburg school; Princeville Town Hall
Military History/Rev. War and Civil WarCSS Neuse; Fort Anderson (Brunswick Town); Governor Caswell Memorial; Civil War Trails; Moore’s Creek
MilitaryHistory/Pirates and Coastal ProtectionCape Hatteras Lighthouse; Blackbeard; Pea Island
Maritime HistoryLighthouses
Military History/WWI, WWII, Korea, VietnamAirborne & Special Ops Museum; 82nd Airborne Memorial; Veterans Memorial (Rocky Mount); British Cemetery (Ocracoke)
Military History/Current Military Bases and Operations Camp Lejeune; Fort Bragg; Seymour Johnson Air Force Base
Working Traditions/WatermenOregon Inlet; Ocracoke Ferry; Wanchese; Watermen/Crabbers; women net makers
Water & sporting – fishing and hunting
Agriculture
Cultural traditions, arts and folklifePocosin Arts ; Carvers at Poplar Grove; basket making; Blount-Bridgers House; Imperial Center; Coastal Carolina Museum
ENC Today/Historic Neighborhoods Company housing Roanoke Rapids; Kinston; Tarboro
ENC Today/Historic CommunitiesBellamy Mansion; Old Firehouse New Bern
ENC Today/Historic ChurchesReligious traditions
Historic CourthousesChowan County; Northhampton County; Hoke County; Halifax County
