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Johnston County Heritage Center

Johnston County Heritage Center

On display are some of the Heritage Center's most valuable artifacts: an original copy of explorer John Lawson's A New Voyage To Carolina, published in 1711; and an original oil painting that depicts Smith's Ferry on the Neuse River at the place that became the Town of Smithfield in 1777.

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