* Kinston is home to The Dancing Ghost of Grancer Harrison who was featured in the book 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey.

In 2009, it was announced that Kinston is a recipient of the prestigious All-America City Award.

In 1833, Kinston briefly became Caswell, in honor of governor Richard Caswell, but the name was reverted to Kinston the following year.

At that time, Kinston was designated the county seat for Lenoir County.

Throughout this period, Kinston was an unincorporated town.

There was also a factory for the production of shoes for the military located in Kinston.

Kinston was heavily impacted by flooding in 1996 and 1999.

He was inducted in the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990.

In 1779 the western part of Dobbs County became Wayne County, and the county seat was moved from its original location on Walnut Creek to the town of Kingston, which was renamed Kinston in 1784.

Clark was born in Kinston, North Carolina and graduated from Garinger High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.

On the evening of November 14, 1970, the Thundering Herd football team, along with coaches and fans, was returning home to Huntington from Kinston, North Carolina.

He was signed by the Detroit Tigers in 1926 and was assigned to play for the Kinston Eagles of the Virginia League.

He was inducted in the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.

Later the ship was installed beside the river at the Governor Caswell Memorial in Kinston.

He was the state player of the year for North Carolina in 1991 – 1992, leading Kinston ( N. C ) High School to the state finals.

Concurrently, a Carolina League franchise from Kinston, North Carolina was moved to Zebulon, taking on the Carolina Mudcats name.

General Branch was unable to regain control of his troops until they had retreated to Kinston, more than 30 miles ( about 50 km ) away.

Pressly was born in Kinston, North Carolina, the daughter of Brenda Sue ( née Smith ), a dance instructor, and James Liston Pressly, a car salesman.

Smith was born in Kinston, North Carolina, United States.

Evans ' Brigade participated in the battles of Second Manassas, South Mountain and Antietam in 1862 and was then assigned to Eastern North Carolina to oppose a major Union raid on Kinston and Goldsboro.

After this campaign, he was tried and acquitted for drunkenness during the Battle of Kinston.

* Air: Lenoir County is served by the Kinston Regional Jetport with service to Orlando, Florida.

* Bus: The county is served by Greyhound with a location in Kinston.

Among the other controversial statements were claims that he strengthened his pitching arm as a youth by throwing rocks at homeless people and that his minor league team, the Kinston Blue Jays, had segregated stands in 1983 despite ample evidence to the contrary.

Global TransPark ( GTP ), a combined airport and industrial complex developed by the state in Lenoir County ; Grainger Stadium, home to the Kinston Indians minor league baseball team through 2011 ; Caswell Center, a campus providing support services and boarding for mentally handicapped ; and Lenoir Memorial Hospital.

* Air: Kinston is served by the Kinston Regional Jetport.

* Kinston is not served directly by passenger trains.

* Bus: Kinston is served by Greyhound.

Ordered to operate with Sherman in North Carolina, Schofield moved his corps by rail and sea to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, in 17 days, occupied Wilmington on February 22, 1865, fought the action at Kinston on March 10, and on March 23, joined Sherman at Goldsboro.

Most of the Confederate Army were forced away from the coast as far inland as Kinston by these battles.

Previous league titles won by Kinston are the Carolina League title in 1962 as an affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Coastal Plain League title in 1947 as an affiliate of the Atlanta Crackers, and a championship in 1935 for an unaffiliated semi-pro team.

Kinston was represented by many excellent amateur clubs since the late nineteenth century, but it was unable to sustain a viable professional team until the mid-1920s.

Long excelled during the 1956 season, setting an RBI standard of 111 that has never been surpassed by any later Kinston hitter.

Another fan attraction was that the Eagles were for the first time a community owned team, operating under the non-profit Kinston Eagles Baseball Company, run by an elected eighteen-man, unpaid board of directors.

Former airline pilot Ray Kuhlman brought minor league baseball back to Kinston by investing in a Carolina League franchise in the late seventies.

The local government's dedication to keeping baseball in Kinston is evidenced by extensive new renovations to the ballpark.

The Kinston Indians were last managed by Aaron Holbert, a former major league infielder.

With the Single-A Kinston Indians in 1992, Ramirez battled injuries but still hit. 278 with 13 homers and 63 RBI in 81 games and was named as the No. 3 Prospect and the " Most Exciting Player in the Carolina League " by Baseball America.

* Grainger Park was shared by the Kinston Eagles of the Coastal Plain League and the Grainger High School Red Devils who used it for both baseball and football.

Kinston Jetport originally was built in 1944 by the United States Navy.

As a result of the Cold War and the expansion of the United States Air Force, Kinston Air Base * was reopened on 17 October 1950 by the USAF Air Training Command, as a contract flying training school with T-34 Mentor, T-6 Texan and T-28 Trojan aircraft.