Mordecai Historic Park

This late eighteenth/early nineteenth century plantation home and historic park is located on the edge of downtown Raleigh, NC.

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• Harmony Hall Plantation: This historic home in Bladen County sits on a property with other old buildings which include a schoolhouse, a chapel, a corn crib, a log home, a store, a kitchen and other preserved buildings to show what the area may have looked like in the 1800s.
• Historic Stagville: Read about the history of the plantation, the Bennehan and Cameron families who owned the plantation, the slave community, the structures on the plantation, and the effect the Civil War had on Stagville Plantation.
• The Charlotte Museum of History: Permanent exhibits in the Charlotte Museum of History include Native American artifacts, representations of the colonial settlers, interactive dioramas of how the town of Charlotte looked in 1775, gold mining, the Civil War, and 2oth century topics. There are also temporary exhibits.

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• Learn more about 18th century, 19th Century, African Americans, Andrew Johnson, Henry and Polly Hinton Lane, Joel Lane, North Carolina, President of the United States, Wake County, William Nichols, architecture, historic sites, history, and plantations.

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Mordecai House was once one of the largest plantations in Wake County, North Carolina. The original portion of the house was built about 1785 by Joel Lane for his son and daughter-in-law, Henry and Polly Hinton Lane. The Mordecai Historic Park features historic structures relocated from Raleigh and surrounding areas. Importantly, President Andrew Johnson’s birthplace is now located in Mordecai Park.

To schedule a program or receive an education packet please contact Erin Callis (erin.callis@ci.raleigh.nc.us), Mordecai Historic Park Assistant Site Manager at 857-4362.

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