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Malcolm Blue Farm and Museum

"More fun than a schoolhouse", students will feel like they are traveling back in time when they experience the past at this 1820's farmstead.

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  • Lesson plan: Civil War Journals Integrates creative writing with social studies and enhances knowledge of the effects of the Civil War on people.
  • Naval stores in antebellum North Carolina Excerpt from Frederick Law Olmsted's A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in which he describes the production of naval stores (turpentine, tar, rosin, and pitch) in eastern North Carolin and the people who lived and worked in the pine forests. Includes historical commentary.

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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.
  • The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough: Take students on a guided walking tour through Hillsborough's historic district and go inside the Norwood Law Office, the Orange County Historical Museum, the Burwell School Historic Site, and the Hughes Academy. Along the way they will also see the Old Orange County Courthouse, historic churches, cemeteries, colonial and antebellum homes, and much more.
  • 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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Located in Aberdeen, the Malcolm Blue Farmhouse is over 170 years old and is one of the remaining examples of 19th Century Scottish Homes in the Sandhills. Malcolm Blue was a wealthy landowner who was very successful in the Naval Store industry. His son, Malcolm James, built a railroad and became the first postmaster of Blue’s Crossing. He also built the first house in what is now downtown Aberdeen.

During the Civil War, a wing of General Sherman’s army commanded by General Judson Kilpatrick camped at the Blue House. One of the last Cavalry engagements of the war was fought on Malcolm Blue’s brother’s farm land. The Union General Jordan commandeered the Blue Farm and Bethesda Church for officer’s use.

The museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11:00 am until 2:00 pm. To schedule a visit, call the Malcolm Blue Farm at 910-944-7558.

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