Martin County, North Carolina

Roanoke River wildlife corridor and eastern Carolina heritage - from the Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge (the Roanoke River bottomland hardwood forest corridor passing through Martin County is one of the largest intact bottomland hardwood forest systems on the East Coast, providing critical habitat for migratory waterfowl, black bears, and one of the most significant American shad spawning runs in the Atlantic watershed) to Martin County's tobacco and agricultural heritage (the county's flat coastal plain supports tobacco, cotton, and peanut farming in the tradition of eastern North Carolina's plantation-era agricultural landscape along the Roanoke River).