Onslow County Museum

Learn about the history of Onlsow County and "retrace the area's progression from 65 million years ago to the present."

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• Lesson plan: Learn about your county This activity will allow fourth grade students in North Carolina to learn more about the counties that surround their home county. Using online images, students will create a multimedia presentation to share with others.
• The Mississippian Moundbuilders and Their Artifacts Virtual display of artifacts left behind by Mississipian moundbuilders beginning in the 10th century A.D.
• Documenting the American South Ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs for the study of Southern history, literature, and culture.
• Lesson plan: Interpreting Diaries of the American South Students will read diaries of individuals who lived in the American South from 1865-1917. After reading these diaries the students will use a visual means of displaying their interpretation. Visual presentations will be one of the following: shadow box, poster, PowerPoint using drawings done by the student, brochure, or presenting an item that would have been used during the time that their diary was written.
• Lesson plan: Why is the past important? As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.

Related pages

• North Carolina Museum of History: Get a sneak preview of the Museum before you visit! You can search for artifacts, preview the exhibitions, and read about important events in North Carolina history. The Museum offers teachers a variety of resources--many are online! Find lesson plans, information on history in a box kits, professional development workshops, and more!
• Waynesborough Historic Village: Visitors to this recreated village will feel as if the have stepped back in time. "Waynesborough's focus begins in 1701 with the first Tuscarora visit and ends in 1900 with a complete economic and social shift to Goldsboro."
• Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology: Learn what it was like to grow up an Indian in the southwestern United States or find out about the processes used in discovering how the ancient people of the Yadkin River Valley lived at this anthropology museum at Wake Forest University.

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• Learn more about American Indians, Camp Lejeune, Civil War, Indians, North Carolina, Onslow County, artifacts, colonial settlements, farming, heritage, history, history museums, and local history.

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The main gallery of this museum features the long-term exhibit - "THE WATER AND THE WOOD: The History of Onslow County." The exhibit documents the history of the county from its geologic foundations beginning 65 million to the present. Areas of particular note include the county’s first inhabitants - the Native Americans of the area beginning approximately twelve thousand years ago, including an 800 year old - 38 foot dug-out canoe found in the Half Moon Branch of the New River. Museum visitors can travel through time to learn more about the area’s rich and diverse natural and cultural heritage including Colonial settlement, early trades and industries, the impact of the Civil War, agricultural traditions, the dynamic changes brought about by World War II and the establishment of Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base, and the emergence of modern Onslow.

Call (910) 324-5008 or send email to Lisa_Whitman-Grice@onslowcountync.gov to arrange a visit. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for youth 3-18. Hours of operation:

• Monday - Friday 8 am until 5 pm
• Saturdays 10 am until 4 pm.

The staff of the Onslow County Museum will be happy to bring their museum to classrooms.

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