Sign in front of the Caldwell County Historical Society Heritage Museum.

The Caldwell County Historical Society Heritage Museum. This building is the last extant structure from Davenport College in Lenoir.

A bird's eye view drawing of Davenport College.

The donation jar. The Caldwell County Historical Society Heritage Museum is entirely volunteer driven.

Museum Director John Hawkins in the main exhibit area.

Display on the local Legend of the Twin Poplars. These trees, which reportedly still stand today outside Lenoir, as the story goes, were twisted together by the leaders of two warring Indian tribes as a symbol of peace.

A Caldwell County kraut jug.

A registration book from the Carlheim Hotel, once a luxurious mainstay of Lenoir's downtown.

A collection of various Caldwell County high school yearbooks.

This is said to have been the first television in Lenoir, owned by John Efrid.

An American flag with forty-six stars.

The Lenoir High School Band Collection at the Caldwell County Historical Society Heritage Museum.

Museum Director John Hawkins explains one of the creations of a local Caldwell County inventor. This particular item is a chair that converts into an ironing board.

A matchbook collection.

An early piece of cosmetology equipment on exhibit.

A bicycle once belonging to a local resident. Note the photograph and document attached to the handlebars. The picture is of the owner with his bike. The document is the final bill of sale for the bike showing each time the owner made payments over the course of many months.

The extensive record collection of Caldwell County resident and US Postal employee Rufus Davis.

Close-ups of Rufus Davis, Caldwell County resident and US postal worker, who collected music recordings and whose collection resides at the Caldwell County Historical Society Heritage Museum.

Caldwell County Historical Society's library and research room.

A copy of "The Hypodermic," an alternative newspaper published in Caldwell County c.1940's.

The Caldwell County Historical Society Heritage Museum has what they believe to be a complete run of "The Hypodermic, " an alternative newspaper published in Caldwell County in the 1940's.

John Hawkins has written a local history column in the Lenoir newspaper for many years and has saved a copy of all his articles. These are compiled in notebooks and are available to researchers at the museum.

NC ECHO project librarian enjoys the huge military collection on the second floor of the Caldwell County Historical Society Heritage Museum.