The homestead eventually served as a voting precinct, a muster ground, a store, and a place for celebrations.

One member proposed the south side of Lower Creek (today, the Whitnel area) because of its view of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

However, since most of the county's population was on the north side of Lower Creek, the Tucker's Barn site was chosen, where Lenoir is today.

[10] During Gen. Stonemans final raid in 1865 during the American Civil War, he passed through Lenoir on March 28 and again on April 15.

[12] Along with this; multiple Civil War companies were formed with soldiers from Lenoir and Caldwell County.

[13] There were also Southern Unionists who supported the Union within Caldwell County, with local Confederate deserters and resisters joining them as the war went on.

[14] Following the Civil War, Clinton A. Cilley, a Union Army Medal of Honor recipient, would settle in Lenoir.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Lenoir has a total area of 19.7 square miles (50.9 km2), all land.

Due to the city's proximity to the Blue Ridge Mountains, temperatures tend to be slightly cooler than areas to the east.

In the 1990s, these companies began changing their business models to reflect consumer trends, and closed several of Lenoir's furniture factories.

[22] There was controversy over the nature, amount, and potential benefits of economic development incentives that the City of Lenoir, Caldwell County, and the State of North Carolina gave Google in 2007 to induce the company to build the server farm.

Wholesale nurseries, shipping large balled and burlap plants to landscapers in metropolitan areas, have been a strong source of employment in Lenoir over the last 75 years.