The Historic Shaw Properties Site Museum
These restored homes, tool shed, and tobacco barn from the late 1700s and early 1800s can be toured at this historic site in Southern Pines.
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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.
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- The McLendon Cabin and the James Bryant House Historic Site: Located at Harris Crossroads in upper Moore County, both of these restored structures are available for students to tour.
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts: A spectacular example of antebellum architecture, this home was commandeered by Federal troops after the fall of Fort Fisher during the Civil War. The Bellamy Mansion is now a museum that focuses on history and the design arts and offers tours.
- Historic Rosedale Plantation: Located a few miles from the center of downtown Charlotte, the Rosedale Plantation is a good representation of plantation life in Piedmont North Carolina.
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- Learn more about Moore County, North Carolina, antebellum, architecture, arts, heritage, historic house museums, and sandhills.
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Three historic houses furnished with the “plain” pine furniture of the early Sandhills are part of the Historic Shaw Properties. The Shaw House, circa 1820, is the oldest house in Southern Pines on its original foundation and is typical of the ante-bellum homes in the Sandhills. It "displays the charm of sturdy simplicity highlighted by fine detail on two wooden fireplace mantels of unusual beauty." The Sanders cabin is over 200 years old and has been cited as an excellent example of a one room cabin of an early settler. The Garner House is the finest example of the rural homes of early Moore County.
The Historic Shaw Properties Site is open Wednesday through Sunday from 1-4 PM. Group tours can be arranged. Admission is by suggested donation of $2.00; children are always admitted free. For more information contact Janet Cunningham at (910) 692-7811 or the Shaw House at (910) 692-2051 during regular hours.
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