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Historic Edenton
Edenton, NC (http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/iredell/iredell.htm)
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- Appropriate grades: 3–12
- Subjects: arts (architecture), social studies (North Carolina, United States history)
- Provider: North Carolina Historic Sites
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- Antebellum North Carolina In this lesson students will examine pictures & documents relating to the Hayes Plantation (Edenton, NC). Students will also use various maps of North Carolina to help them analyze how James Cathcart Johnston (owner of Hayes Plantation) used, modified and adapted to the physical environment of Edenton.
Students will decipher original manuscripts from the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Campus and draw conclusions about antebellum society in North Carolina with regard to reform movements and the history and status of blacks.
From a list of volumes found in the Hayes Plantation Library exhibit at the North Carolina Collection Gallery, students will determine what catagories of books were most prevalent in the library and hypothesize as to why those types of books would be so important to an antebellum plantation owner.
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Established in the late seventeenth century and incorporated in 1722, Edenton is a town rich in architecture and history since pre-Revolutionary times. Edenton is located in Chowan County on Edenton Bay at the head of the Albemarle Sound. It retains an extensive historic district with a wonderful assemblage of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early-twentieth-century buildings. One of its citizens signed the Declaration of Independence (a second signer died in Edenton while fleeing his creditors), and another signed the United States Constitution. James Iredell was appointed to the first U.S. Supreme court by George Washington.
The Historic Edenton website is provided by North Carolina Historic Sites and contains a brief introduction and history of the town as well as a listing of special events.
For more information contact Historic Edenton P.O. Box 474 Edenton, NC 27932 Phone: (252) 482-2637 or email edenton@ncmail.net