Jacksonville and Camp LejeuneLocated near the North Carolina coast on the New River, Jacksonville is home to the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. From the beginning, the people of Jacksonville have faced challenges brought on by the winds of nature and the winds of war in a poised and dignified manner, turning hardships to the betterment of the community. Such changes have encouraged population and tourist growth, as well as physical expansion of the city, thus creating a booming area that still manages to maintain the charm and hospitality of a small Southern town. Jacksonville and Camp Lejeune revisits the era when Jacksonville was just a fledgling community, when tobacco barns and warehouses dotted the landscape and ferries and fishing boats forged the New River. The townspeople looked to agriculture, shipping, naval stores, lumbering, hunting, fishing, and political involvement to occupy their interests and energies, while hurricanes and wars loomed in the world beyond. Few people in those times could have imagined that a hurricane would make Jacksonville the county seat of Onslow County or that the world at war would result in the population expansion of the 1940s and the 1950s. With the building of the Marine base, which brought about enormous social change for the residents, the city attracted construction workers, young families, and service men and women who paved the way for today's "rural metropolis." |
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African Americans Archives and History Bank of Onslow Beirut built in Jacksonville Camp Johnson Camp Lejeune Carteret County construction Court Street Courtesy of Marilan Courtesy of Mary Courtesy of Naomi Courtesy of Olese Cris Koonce Department of Archives downtown area Eloise Walton gate of Camp Graphics Department high school Highway 17 Highway 17 South history of Jacksonville honor Jacksonville and Camp Jacksonville and Onslow Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber Jacksonville's Joe Bynum Johnson Drug Kellumtown land left to right main gate Margolis Men's Store Marilan Margolis Marine base Marine Corps Base Max Margolis military personnel Mill Avenue Montford Point moved Murrell Naomi Cardwell North Carolina Old Bridge Street Olese and Eloise ONSLOW COUNTY HOSPITAL Onslow County Museum Onslow County Public Pelletier House Petteway Photo by Dr Photo by Joe Photo by Randy photograph Raleigh renovated residents restoration Stratton Summersill Building Tallman Street Thelma Langley town U.S. government Wantland's Ferry Warlick Western Boulevard