Gaston County
Field trip opportunities in Gaston County
- American Military Museum of Gastonia
- A visit to this museum will help to bring understanding to students who are studying the United State history.
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- Belmont Historical Society Cultural and Heritage Learning Center
- Step back in time and learn about the history of Belmont, North Carolina through photographs, artifacts and other exhibits.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Brevard Station Museum
- This museum provides a collection of interesting stories, facts, recollections, pictures and tidbits relating to the history of Stanley, Gaston County, North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Crowders Mountain State Park
- Enjoy the beautiful surroundings of Crowders Mountain State Park while learning about the geologic formation of the mountain and the flora and fauna that are found there.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden
- Students will enjoy a 1 1/2 hour tour led by trained garden guides either along the formal garden tour or the Woodland Trail tour through a beautifully forested area along a quarter mile nature trail.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Gaston County Museum of Art and History
- Gaston County local history is brought to life at this museum in Dallas, NC. Learn about the North Carolina textile mill industry and see special exhibits.
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- Mountain Island Educational State Forest
- This State Forest concentrates its programs on best forestry management practices and water quality. Located on Mountain Island Lake, the Forest offers educational opportunities to classroom students.
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- Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
- The museum provides an opportunity for visitors to learn about the natural resources of North Carolina and its Piedmont region.
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Learn more about Gaston County
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- Children at home in a textile mill community
- The girl in the plaid dress, standing in front of her home in this picture, works in the textile mill in Gastonia, North Carolina. She is twelve years old and has been working at the mill for four years. One of her brothers stands next to her in the picture....
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- Congress considers an inquiry into textile strikes
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.6
- Newspaper article about a congressional debate about southern textile strikes, 1929. Includes historical background and commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Crowders Mountain State Park
- This is the view from Crowders Mountain in Crowders Mountain State Park.
- Format: image/photograph
- Doffers in Cherryville Manufacturing Company, N.C.
- Three young boys called doffers stand in front of a spinning machine in the Cherryville Manufacturing Company. Doffers took bobbins full of thread off the machines and replaced them with empty bobbins. In this sepia photograph, the boy closest to the photographer...
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- Doffers in Trenton Mills, Gastonia, N.C.
- Four young boys called doffers can be seen pushing bins full of bobbins of thread through a textile mill in this photograph taken in 1908. Doffers replaced the full bobbins with empty ones in the spinning area of the mill. The sepia photograph shows the spinning...
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- The Gastonia strike
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.1
- A strike at Loray Cotton Mill in Gastonia, North Carolina, in 1929, led to the killing of the police chief and made national news.
- Format: article
- An industry representative visits Loray Mills
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.3
- Article from the Charlotte Observer during the Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, 1929. Includes historical background and commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Lit-up Christmas tree in the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens
- This is a lit-up Christmas tree decoration on a lawn in the Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, North Carolina. Every year, the garden has a holiday lighting event.
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- Magnificent orchid at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in Gaston County, NC
- This is a magnificent orchid at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in Gaston County, North Carolina.
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- The Mill Mother's Lament
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.8
- Song by labor activist Ella Mae Wiggins sung during the Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, 1929. Includes biographical information about Wiggins.
- Format: music/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- North Carolina History: A Sampler
- A sample of the more than 800 pages of our digital textbook for North Carolina history, including background readings, various kinds of primary sources, and multimedia. Also includes an overview of the textbook and how to use it.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- North Carolina in the early 20th century
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Old Gaston County Courthouse
- This is the old Gaston County Courthouse in Dallas, North Carolina. It was the second courthouse of Gaston County, before the county seat was moved to Gastonia. It now serves as a police station and city hall.
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- One of the smallest doffers at Cherryville Manufacturing Company
- One of the smallest children, a doffer, at the Cherryville Manufacturing Company can be seen in this photograph. He is wearing shorts and is barefoot and appears to be polishing a wooden stand which holds some of the spinning machinery. A young girl wearing...
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- Origami display at the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
- This is an origami display at the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium. All of the pieces were designed and folded by Robert J. Lang, a master origami artist.
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- The police chief is killed
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.7
- In North Carolina History: A Sampler, page 4.7
- Article from the Gastonia Daily Gazette about the killing of the town's police chief during the 1929 Loray Mill strike. Includes historical background and commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Star projector in the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
- This is a star projector in the planetarium of the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Gastonia, North Carolina.
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- The strike begins
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.2
- Article from the Gastonia Daily Gazette at the beginning of the Loray Mill strike in 1929. Includes historical background and commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- The strikers move into tents
- In North Carolina in the early 20th century, page 8.5
- Article from the Gastonia Daily Gazette printed during the Loray Mill strike, 1929. Striking workers were thrown out of their houses, which were owned by the mill. Includes historical background and commentary.
- Format: newspaper/primary source
- Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.
- Stuffed animals at the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium
- These are stuffed animals at the Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Gastonia, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
