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The marine environment in this vicinity has long attracted researchers. In the 1880s Johns Hopkins University operated a laboratory at the Gibbs House on Front Street. The U.S. government opened the nation’s second fisheries lab in 1899 in Beaufort. Environmentalist and author Rachel Carson (1907-1964) worked at the lab in 1930s. Marine labs were opened by Duke University at Pivers Island in 1938 and by UNC in Morehead City in 1947.
How does black powder work? Why does the order of loading and firing a cannon matter? What impact did artillery have on the Civil War? These and other questions will be answered by a team of historians in period uniforms during a webcast on the science and history of Civil War cannon from Bentonville Battlefield March 11. Some of the topics covered by the webcast will include: