RoadDog
Corporal
- Joined
- May 29, 2008
- Location
- The Great Midwest
I was in North Carolina last week and visited the small town (pop. 85) of Seven Springs near Goldsboro to check out the site (in a cornfield) where the CSS Neuse was built.
The Battle of White Hall also took place there in Dec. 1862 and was part of Foster's Raid from New Bern to Goldsboro. At the time, Union artillery damaged the ironclad which was under construction.
While driving around to battle sites, we drove past the playground and saw a small scale model of the CSS Neuse in use as a sort of a playhouse. It had the sides painted gray and an iron pipe sticking out of the front as a cannon.
Does anyone know of any playgrounds anywhere else that feature a Civil War-era warship?
The Battle of White Hall also took place there in Dec. 1862 and was part of Foster's Raid from New Bern to Goldsboro. At the time, Union artillery damaged the ironclad which was under construction.
While driving around to battle sites, we drove past the playground and saw a small scale model of the CSS Neuse in use as a sort of a playhouse. It had the sides painted gray and an iron pipe sticking out of the front as a cannon.
Does anyone know of any playgrounds anywhere else that feature a Civil War-era warship?