Hertford County, North Carolina

Murfreesboro antebellum heritage and Meherrin River - from Murfreesboro's remarkably preserved antebellum architecture (the town of Murfreesboro contains one of North Carolina's finest collections of Federal and Greek Revival architecture from the early 19th century - the historic district along Broad Street reflects the prosperity of the pre-Civil War tobacco and cotton era that shaped northeastern North Carolina's plantation economy) to the Meherrin River corridor (the Meherrin River drains Hertford County's coastal plain terrain, supporting agriculture and providing natural character through one of the more rural counties of the northeastern North Carolina coastal plain near the Virginia border).