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The Wyse Fork Battlefield is endangered because of planned highway construction. The NC Depart of Transportation wants to run the new highway 70 bypass with interchange through the heart of the battlefield where the heat of the battle took place. There is another route that could be used that is much cheaper and .2 mile shorter. Please help support a change in the route and the preservation of the Wyse Fork Battlefield.
Wyse Fork Fire Department broke ground at 1155 Neuse Road in Kinston for their second fire station on Monday.
“Today is the groundbreaking on our station two for Wyse Fork department,” said Wyse Fork Chief Donnie Gray Jr. “It’s going to serve as an immediate resource to this area of our fire district.”
Gray hopes the building is completed in time for hurricane season.
“The significance of this station is that, in the last hurricanes that we've had, particularly Caswell Station Road and then Causey Road, have flooded and we've had to do a lot of boat rescues,” said Lenoir County Commissioner J. Mac Daughety.
When Dennis Harper was 11 years old, he became fascinated with the Wyse Fork Battlefield. In the decades since, Harper has collected more than 12,000 artifacts from that battle.
