North Carolina Regional Field Experiences

North Carolina Regional Field Experiences

Location

Asheville

Bakersville

Blowing Rock

Boone

Site(s)

Biltmore Estate

www.biltmore.com

North Carolina Homespun Museum

www.grovewood.com

Riverside Cemetery

www.ashevilleparks.org

Smith-McDowell House Museum

www.wnchistory.org

Southern Appalachian Radio Museum

www.saradiomuseum.org

Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site

www.wolfememorial.com

Dellinger’s Mill

Mystery Hill-Heritage and Native American Museum

www.mysteryhill-nc.com

Hickory Ridge Homestead and Living History Museum

www.horninthewest.com

Description

America’s largest home, National Historic Landmark

History of Biltmore Industries Museum, Weaving demonstrations

Final resting place of Thomas Wolfe and O. Henry

Oldest surviving house in Asheville, History exhibits and period rooms

Collection of radios from World War I to 1960s, Operating radio station

Boyhood home of author Thomas Wolfe

State’s oldest working gristmill

Home built in 1902, teaches mountain family life in early 1900s, Native American Artifacts Museum

History recreated with traditional costume, traditional tools, hearth-baking, candle-making, etc.

Grade Span Connections

3-5

2-4

3-5

K-2

3-5

2-4

K-2

Boone

Brevard

Bryson City

Cherokee

Cullowhee

Horn in the West Historical Outdoor Drama

www.horninthewest.com

Silvermont Mansion

Great Smoky Mountains Railroad

www.gsmr.com

Cherokee Heritage Museum

Museum of the Cherokee Indian

Cherokee Indian Reservation

www.cherokee-nc.com

Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama

www.untothesehills.com

Mountain Heritage Center

www.wcu.edu/mhc

Historical outdoor drama follows frontiersman Daniel Boone and his bank of mountain settlers

Colonial Revival mansion built in 1902

Offers 4 to 41/2 hour round-trip excursion of the Western North Carolina Mountains

Displays of art and cultural items such as masks, crystals, the uketena, etc. Gallery with Native American crafts and art

Technology combined with artifact collection. Multi-sensory trip through Cherokee history

Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Oconaluftee Indian Village, Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama, Qualla Co-op Arts, etc.

Recently updated outdoor drama portraying the history of the Cherokee Indians

Exhibition details 18th century migration of Scotch-Irish to New World and Western North Carolina

3-5

K-2

3-5

Flat Rock

Fontana Village

Franklin

Hendersonville

Lenoir

Marion

Mars Hill

Moravian Falls

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site – Connemara

www.nps.gov/carl

Fontana Dam

www.westernattractions.com

Macon County Historical Museum

www.maconnchistorical.org

Historic Johnson Farm

www.henderson.k12.nc.us/district/johnsonfarm

Caldwell Heritage Museum

www.caldwellcochamber.org

Historic Carson Home

www.mcdowellnc.org

Rural Life Museum

Perry Lowe Orchards

www.PerryLoweOrchards.com

Historical site where Carl Sandburg (poet, historian, lecturer, author) spent the final 22 years of his life

Largest dam east of the Mississippi, constructed during early 1940s to supply electricity to fuel war effects during World War II

Displays on education, the Civil War, early medicine, textiles and photographs

Home of unique collection of airplanes and memorabilia celebrating Golden Age of General Aviation

Artifactual photographic and demographic exhibits depicting history of Caldwell County

Walnut log cabin, built in early 1800s, filled with unusual household and plantation artifacts

Shows history and culture of Southern Appalachian Region and Madison County

Offers seasonal apple tree maze, special blends of apple cider and dried apples

3-5

K-2

Morganton

Murphy

Old Fort

Robbinsville

Sawmills

Spruce Pine

Sam J. Ervin Library and Museum

Cherokee County Historical Museum

Mountain Gateway Museum

www.mcdowellnc.org

Old Fort Railroad Museum

www.mcdowellnc.org

Junaluska Museum, Memorial and Medicine Plant Trail

www.junaluska.com

Fort Defiance

www.fortdefiancenc.org

Historic Orchard at Altapass

www.altapassorchard.com

Replica of Senator Ervin’s home library with items from his days as chairman of Watergate Hearings

Reflects life of Cherokee Indian during time of Cherokee nation and removal along Trail of Tears

Displays mountain lifestyle and history from earliest original inhabitants along with two 1800s log cabins

Illustrates the impact of the railroad system of the western region with railroad and train exhibits, original tools, signal lights and furniture

Several large displays of Native American artifacts, honors prominent Cherokee leader, trail includes plants/shrubs used in making traditional medicine

Home of General William Lenoir, Revolutionary War hero with more than 300 pieces of original clothing and furnishings on display

Appalachian cultural and historical center, features hayrides following path of Revolutionary War soldiers

3-5

K-2

2-4

3-5

Tryon

Valdese

Valle Crucis

Waynesville

Weaverville

Wilkesboro

Polk County Historical Museum

From This Day Forward Outdoor Drama

www.oldcolonyplayers.com

Mast General Store

www.mastgeneralstore.com

Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts

Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State Historic Site

Wilkes Heritage Museum

www.WilkesHeritageMuseum.com

Former railroad depot, housing more than 500 artifacts dating back to early settlers

Tells the story of the Waldensians, a religious sect from Italy that migrated to NC

National Historic Register, one of the best remaining examples of an old country store

Exhibits heritage crafts, including wood carvings, pottery, Cherokee and Navaho artifacts

Reconstructed birthplace of Civil War-era Governor Zebulon B. Vance

Tells stories of Native Americans, explorers, Revolutionary heroes, Civil War, local industry and important figures like Daniel Boone and Tom Dula “Dooley”

K-2

3-5

K-2

3-5

Aberdeen

Albemarle

Asheboro

Bailey

Benson

Burlington

Malcolm Blue Farm and Museum

www.malcolmbluefarm.org

Stanly County Museum

North Carolina Aviation Museum

www.ncairmuseum.org

Country Doctor Museum

www.countrydoctormuseum.org

Benson Museum of History

Alamance Battleground State Historic Site

www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/alamanc.htm

Alamance County Historical Museum

Crica-1825 antebellum farm featuring a museum, restored farmhouse, gristmill and barns, National Register of Historic Places and NC Civil War Trails

History of Stanly County, offers tours of two local historic house museums (the Snuggs House – 1873 and the Marks House – 1847)

Examples of America’s warplanes from World War II through Vietnam, collection of authentic military uniforms and memorabilia

Honors the “old family doctor” with restored offices of two country doctors who practiced from 1857-1887

Collection includes railroad memorabilia, antiques, quilts, and farming and hardware artifacts

Site where the North Carolina militia fought against the Regulators on May 16, 1771, also includes the Allen House and a log dwelling similar to what frontier people may have lived in

19th house-museum showing the life of textile pioneer Edwin Michael Holt through period-room setting and tours

K-2

3-5

K-2

3-5

K-2

Burlington

Carthage

Catawba

Chapel Hill

Cedarock Historical Work Farm

Textile Heritage Museum

Whistlestop Exhibit at Company Shops

www.whistlestopncrr.com

Bryant House and McLendon Cabin

Carthage Historical Museum

www.townofcarthage.org/history.htm

Historic Murray’s Mill

Chapel Hill Museum

www.chapelhillmuseum.org

North Carolina Collection Gallery

www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/gallery.html

Original site of the Garrett farm dating back to 1820, includes demonstrations on farming techniques used at the turn of the century

Learn about the beginning of the cotton mills, water power, railroads, weaving and knitting of fabrics

Exhibit includes Company Shops which contains many little scenes of life in the late 1800s, speaks to railroad influence on state

McLendon Cabin (circa 1760) and Bryant House (circa 1820)

Artifacts covering more than 200 years of area history, including exhibits of Tyson & Jones Buggy Company

Turn-of-the-Century gristmill, features one of the largest water wheels in the state, a general store and folk museum

Exhibits on Chapel Hill, Southern culture and history

Historic rooms and exhibits from extensive holding of books, maps, photographs and museum objects

K-2

2-4

K-2

3-5

Charlotte

Cherryville

Clemmons

Clinton

Concord

Cooleemee

Charlotte Museum of History/Hezekiah Alexander Homesite

www.charlottemuseum.org

Historic Rosedale Plantation

www.libweb.uncc.edu/archives/crhc/rosedale.htm

Levine Museum of the New South

www.museumofthenewsouth.org

C. Grier Beam Truck Museum

Cherryville Historical Museum

Mrs. Hanes’ Hand-made Moravian Cookies

www.hanescookies.com

Sampson County History Museum

www.sampsonhmc.com

Backing Up Classics Motor Car Museum

www.backingupclassics.com

Mill Village Museum

Revolutionary War-era home (circa 1774), now museum, features nearly 15,000 artifacts

Remaining example of 19th century Catawba River Valley plantations

Interactive regional history museum features exhibits about Charlotte’s past

Exhibits 14 trucks dating back to 1927 in old-style service station

Contains exhibits following the history of Cherryville from early 1800s

Largest hand-made cookie company in the world, view the entire process of making Moravian cookies

Artifacts from Revolutionary and Civil Wars, WWI and II, Vietnam and Gulf Wars, African and Native American culture

Collection of antique, classic and race cars

Early 1900s artifacts and rare photographs show what life was like in Carolina cotton mill village

3-5

K-2

2-4

3-5

K-2

Dallas

Dunn

Durham

Dallas Historic District

Gaston County Museum of Art and History

Averasboro Civil War Battlefield Museum and Chicora Cemetery

General William C. Lee Airborne Museum

Bennett Place State Historic Site

Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum

Historic Stagville

District includes the Gaston County Museum and the Old Jail

Housed in historic Hoffman Hotel (circa 1852), features authentic furnished period rooms, carriage house features largest collection of horse-drawn carriages in state

Battle of Averasboro historic markers, plantation home used as a Confederate hospital, cemetery for battle’s dead

Museum in Lee’s mansion, traces his personal life and growth of airborne division

Site of Confederate Gen. Johnston’s surrender to Union Gen. Sherman, reconstructed farm house, outbuildings and museum

Duke family’s mid-1800s home, tobacco barns and original factory; museum, film and living history demonstrations of life on typical yeoman farm in 1800s

18th and 19th century buildings, barn and slave quarters offer insights into plantation life, society and culture

K-2

3-5

Durham

Ellerbe

Fayetteville

Fort Bragg

Four Oaks

Patterson’s Mill Country Store

Rankin Museum of American Heritage

www.rankinmuseumcom

Airborne and Special Operations Museum

www.asomf.org

Fayetteville Area Transportation Museum

Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex

www.ncmuseumofhistory.org

82nd Airborne Division War Memorial Museum

John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Museum

www.soc.mil/swcs/museum/museum.shtml

Bentonville Battleground State Historic Site

www.bentonvillebattlefield.nchistoricsites.org

Authentic turn-of-century country store and doctor’s office and pharmacy

Artifacts related to archaeology, paleontology, natural history and early Americana

Explores the 60 year history of airborne and special operations units

Focuses on history of transportation in Cumberland County from Native American times to present day

Chronicles history of southern North Carolina from time of Native Americans to 20th century

Houses history of the 82nd Airborne Division from 1917 to the present

Holds a collection of weapons, military art and cultural items from around the world

Home of largest Civil War land battle on North Carolina soil; walk the fields, tour Harper House where wounded were treated

K-2

3-5

K-2

3-5

Four Oaks

Fremont

Gastonia

Gold Hill

Goldsboro

Goldston

Camp Flintlock

www.campflintlock.com

Governor Charles B. Aycock Birthplace State Historic Site

American Military Museum

Village of Gold Hill

www.historicgoldhill.com

Wayne County Museum

www.historicalwaynenc.com

Waynesborough Historical Village

www.wcpl.org/waynesborough.htm

Goldston Historic District

www.visitpittsboro.com

Experience firsthand crafts and activities of Colonial-American family in 1770s

Boyhood home of Gov. Charles B. Aycock featuring restored home, outbuildings, farmstead, one-room schoolhouse and visitor center

Collections include uniforms, weapons, scale models, flags, pictures from all wars and services

Richest mining property east of the Mississippi; visit Rock Jail, Mauney’s 1840 Store and Museum and E.H. Montgomery Store

Features permanent Civil War exhibit with a Confederate Camp scene and diorama of Battle of Goldsborough Bridge

Visit a family home, medical office, one-room school, low office and Quaker meeting house as they were in 19th century

Includes 15 building constructed between 1890 and 1935

3-5

2-4

3-5

K-2

Granite Quarry

Greensboro

Halifax

Hamlet

Old Stone House

www.rowanmuseum.org

Blandwood Mansion

www.blandwood.org

Greensboro Historical Museum

www.greensborohistory.org

Guilford Courthouse National Military Park

www.nps.gov/guco

Tannenbaum Historic Park

www.march1781.org

Historic Halifax State Historic Site

www.visithalifax.com

National Railroad Museum and Hall of Fame

www.micropublishing.com/railroad

Two-story Georgian-style house is the oldest structure in Rowan County

19th century Italian villa was home to former North Carolina Gov. John Motley Morehead

12 galleries and 2 restored houses; Greensboro Sit-ins, First Lady Dolley Madison and O. Henry; collection of Civil War firearms and 20th century photography

200 acres and 28 monuments of soldiers, statesmen and patriots of American Revolution honor the site of battle

Park was 18th century farmstead; exhibits of life in Colonial Guilford County

Home of Halifax Resolves, several historic structures including Sally Billy House, Burgess House, Halifax County Jail

One of most photographed stations in U.S; includes photographs, maps, displays, model railroad layout and engines

K-2

3-5

K-2

3-5

K-2

Haw River

Henderson

Hiddenite

High Point

Haw River Historical Museum

www.rootsweb.com/~nchrha

Historic Henderson

www.kerrlake-nc.com

Vance County Historical Museum

Hiddenite Center at the Historic Lucas Mansion

High Point Museum and Historical Park

www.highpointmuseum.org

Museum of Old Domestic Life

Rosetta C. Baldwin African-American Museum

Alamance County and textile histories; large collection of photographs from 1890 to present

Brick buildings, churches and remnants of residential areas; constructed in the 1800s

Depicts history of Vance County from American Indian times through World War II

Victorian mansion houses museum of antiques and collectibles, local gem and mineral collection, art gallery and toy and doll collection

Exhibits show the Quaker village from the establishment of furniture and textiles industries to today

Quaker meeting house filled with everyday items necessary to 19th-century rural like in Quaker community

Honors legacy of Miss Rosetta C. Baldwin, her family and many African-Americans and their contributions

K-2

2-4

Hillsborough

Huntersville

Jamestown

Alexander Dickson House

www.historichillsborough.org

Ayr Mount Historic Site

www.classicalamericanhomes.org

Burwell School Historic Site

www.burwellschool.org

Occaneechi Indian Village

www.occaneechi-saponi.org

Orange County Historical Museum

www.orangeNChistory.org

Ruffin-Rouhlac House

www.historichillsborough.org

Historic Latta Plantation

www.lattaplantation.org

Mendenhall Plantation

www.mendenhallplantation.org

Circa-1790 Quaker-plan house known as “Last Headquarters of the Confederacy”

Restored 1815 plantation home furnished with Federal antiques and decorative art

House (circa 1821, 1848) and outbuildings served as Rev. and Mrs. Burwell’s Female School from 1837 to 1857

1701 reconstructed village with palisade, huts, cooking site, sweat lodge

Historical museum with collections covering pre-Colonial through Revolutionary and Civil War to early 1900s

Now used as Town Hall, early 19th-century house with six outbuildings

Restored circa-1800 Federal-style home with several restored outbuildings

19th-century Quaker homestead supported abolitionist movement during Civil War

K-2

K-4 (and 8)

K-2

Kannapolis

Kenly

Kings Mountain

Kittrell

Laurinburg

Dale Trail

Fieldcrest Cannon Textile Museum

Tobacco Farm Life Museum

www.tobaccofarmlifemuseum.org

Kings Mountain Fire Museum

www.kmfire.com

Confederate Cemetery

Historic Downtown Laurinburg

Historic John Blue House and Cotton Gin

Scottish Heritage Center

Self-guided tour of landmarks relating to Dale Earnhardt’s life and NASCAR career

History of textile manufacturing featuring antique hand loom, interactive touch-screen computer monitor and multi-image show

Displays artifacts from all aspects of farm life; depicts rural life as it was during Great Depression

Features more than 500 items including antique fire trucks and fire-fighting equipment

52 soldiers buried in the cemetery died at the Kittrell Springs Hotel

National Register Historic District features 50 buildings in a walking tour of downtown district

100-year old Victorian house, with two museum rooms, three authentic log cabins, restored pre-Civil War cotton gin, miniature steam locomotive

Preserves and highlights Scottish history, culture, music and traditions of Carolinas

3-5

K-2

3-5

K-2

3-5

Lexington

Lumberton

Midland

Milton

Monroe

Mooresville

Davidson County Historical Museum

www.co.davidson.nc.us/museum

Historic Uptown Lexington

www.uptownlexington.com

Robeson County Showcase Museum

www.robesoncountyhistory.org

Reed Gold Mine

www.reedmine.com

Historic Milton

www.webpages.charter.net/ljeffress/webdoc1.html

Monroe Downtown Historic District

Memory Lane Motorsports and Historic Automotive Museum

www.memorylaneautomuseum.com

Museum features artifacts and photographs as well as a second-floor courtroom and is located in Old Davidson County Courthouse (circa 1858)

More than 40 historic properties in National Register Historic District; fringe sites dating from 1824-1948

Museum collection of artifacts relative to Lumberton and Robeson County

Site of the first gold discovery in North America in 1799 by a 12-year-old boy; underground tunnels and restored stamp mill

Historic town still living in the 1800s with shops and completely restored road course race track

Reflects when town was an agricultural and commercial center; period architecture

One-of-a kind vehicles including race cars, vintage autos, motorcycles, toys, etc.

K-2

3-5

K-2

Mooresville

Mount Airy

Mount Gilead

Mount Olive

Mount Ulla

North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame

www.ncarhof.com

Gertrude Smith House

www.visitmayberry.com

Historic Downtown Mount Airy-“Mayberry”

www.visitmayberry.com

Moore House

www.visitmayberry.com

Mount Airy Museum of Regional History