King Cotton and tobacco dominate the agriculture here. This area east of Goldsboro straddles the Piedmont and Coastal Plain physiographic regions of eastern North Carolina. Many of the old farm structures that remain represent a past of sharecropping andKing Cotton and tobacco dominate the agriculture here. This area east of Goldsboro straddles the Piedmont and Coastal Plain physiographic regions of eastern North Carolina. Many of the old farm structures that remain represent a past of sharecropping and the family farm. Although suburbia is encroaching from every direction, a few land owners seem to be preserving rural architecture in some capacity. The bramble-entangled mailbox standing open in front of World War II era farmstead is a sentinel of this lost past. The Neuse River cuts through the eastern edge of Piedmont leaving a 90-foot high cliffline of unconsolidated gravel, shale, sand, seashells and clay at Cliffs of the Neuse State Park. The cliffs were formed from a fault created by tectonic uplift from a receding ocean. Note the Lover's Lane section of the Park were lovers carved hearts of proclamation in a row of old beech trees. Maybe these lovers found their own gentle uplift in the park too.