page_title: Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids CSA
section_title: Attractions
hierarchical_section_title: Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids CSA / Attractions
caption_attribution_description: English: Lake Gaston, at dawn, 2007. This picture, taken from the Old Bridge Point subdivision, on Hubquarter Creek, depicts an early sunrise. "The date in the metadata is incorrect, due to not setting the camera date."
context_page_description: The Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids Combined Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in northeastern North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the CSA had a population of 310,416, with an estimated population of 297,726 in 2018. The statistical area includes the Rocky Mount Metropolitan Statistical Area, Wilson Micropolitan Statistical Area, and Roanoke Rapids Micropolitan Statistical Area, and the counties of Nash, Wilson, Edgecombe, Halifax, Northampton.
context_section_description: Halifax Historic District - historic site operated by the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources in Halifax, North Carolina. Every year, Halifax Day is held to celebrate the signing of the Halifax Resolves on April 12, 1776 (commemorated on the North Carolina state flag) with interpreters in period costumes providing guided tours of historic buildings, demonstrating historic crafts,  teaching about colonial activities, and occasionally portraying revolutionary-era soldiers with historic weapons.
  Imperial Centre for the Arts and Sciences - art center, science museum, and theatre in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
  Lake Gaston - hydroelectric reservoir and recreational lake in Halifax and Northampton counties near Littleton and Roanoke Rapids.
  Medoc Mountain State Park - North Carolina state park in Halifax County, North Carolina.
  Rocky Mount Mills - historic cotton mill on the Tar River in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Purchased by Capitol Broadcasting Company, it has been turned into a mixed-use campus of breweries, restaurants, lofts, and event space.
  Rocky Mount Event Center - an athletic and entertainment facility in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
  Sylvan Heights Bird Park - bird park and breeding center in Scotland Neck, North Carolina with one of the world's large collections of waterfowl and other rare and exotic birds.
  Tarboro Historic District - 45-block historic district in Tarboro, North Carolina centered around the Tarboro Town Common, a 15-acre (61,000 m²) park established in 1760, that has a canopy of tall oaks and installation of various war memorials. It is the oldest still-existing colonial town common in the country outside of Boston.
  Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park - park in downtown Wilson, North Carolina with kinetic sculptures known as whirligigs by the late Vollis Simpson.
caption: Sunrise over Lake Gaston.
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