HISTORY LIVE!TRIVIA CHALLENGE

1

What North Carolina County is Camp Lejeune in?

Who led the first European exploration of the coast of present-day Onslow County?

What is the name of the main river that flows through Camp Lejeune?

For whom was Camp Lejeune named?

For whom was Onslow County named?

What was the name of the first town to be established at what is now Camp Lejeune?

An early settler named Severus Goold was licensed to operate a _____ at the town of Johnston in 1743.

Sir Arthur Onslow

Royal Governor Onslow King Onslow

Prince Onslow

Pender County

Giovanni da Verrazano

Cape Fear River

King Lejeune

Hampstead

Church

Duplin County

Christopher Columbus

Lumber River

Senator Lejeune

Midway

Tavern

Onslow County

Hernando de Soto

New River

Major General John A. Lejeune

Kings Grant

School

Jones County

Ponce de Leon

South River

President Lejeune

Johnston (incorporated 1741)

Tax Collection Office

HISTORY LIVE!TRIVIA CHALLENGE

2

A powerful hurricane destroyed the town of Johnston in what year?

Snead’s Ferry originally was called what?

The best mode of travel in Onslow County in colonial times was by ____.

The economy of colonial Onslow County was based on ____ and ____.

The most valuable economic activity in colonial Onslow County was ____.

The main source of labor for the early naval stores industry in Onslow County was ____.

Tar, pitch, rosin, and turpentine are different types of ____ that were produced in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries at what is now Camp Lejeune.

1775

Johnston Ferry

Car

Agriculture and Forest

The Naval Stores Industry

Volunteers

1880

Ennett’s Ferry

Foot

Textiles and Fishing

Mining

Slaves

1886

Onslow Ferry

Horse

Tourism and Technology

Fishing

Children

1752

South Ferry

Boat

Coal and Gold

Farming

Servants

Paving Products

Drinks Naval Stores

Medicines

HISTORY LIVE!TRIVIA CHALLENGE

3

Which of the following industries was not present in colonial Onslow County?

Which of the following was not a type of recreation for colonial residents of Onslow County?

Which United States President, while on a tour of the South in 1791, passed through present-day Camp Lejeune?

The village of ____ was located on Courthouse Bay in the present Camp Lejeune and began about 1885 and had 15 families, four stores, a doctor, a sawmill, two cotton gins, and a brick maker.

In 1892, a New York financier named Thomas A. McIntyre built a 27-room mansion on Town Point that he called ____.

What was the name of the first training area at Camp Lejeune for African-American Marines?

In the 1920s, the High Point Land Company began a resort development called ____ in what is now Camp Lejeune.

Billiards

George Washington

Soldiers

McIntyre Mansion

Camp Onslow

Corn Shucking

Onlsow Resort

James Madison

Comrades

Onslow House

Camp Johnson

Log Rollings

High Point

John Adams

Allies

Onslow Hall

Camp New River

Bowling

New River Resort

Thomas Jefferson

Marines

Point Place

Camp Snead

Paradise Point

Brick Kilns

Sugar Mills

Grist Mills

Sawmills

HISTORY LIVE!TRIVIA CHALLENGE

4

When the federal government began purchasing land for Camp Lejeune in 1941, most of the acreage was owned by ____ ?

What were the three main sources of income for families living in Onslow County at the time of the purchase of land for Camp Lejeune?

When the federal government purchased the land that would become Camp Lejeune, there were about ____ families living upon it.

The State Government

Agriculture, Fishing, and The Timber Industry

Mining, Grist Mils, andTextile Manufacturing

25 (or about 83 persons)

Timber Companies

720 (or about 2,400 persons)

Farmers

1,000 (or about 3,333 persons)

Grist Mills

Tourism, Trade, and Teaching

Ranching, Mining, and Trade

100 (or about 333 persons)