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The County Doctor Museum

The Country Doctor Museum offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about the history of health care.

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  • Science Odyssey - Doctor Over Time Compare the way medical treatment changed over the 20th Century through this interactive site.
  • Eastern North Carolina Digital Library Digitization project encompassing collections pertaining to the history of eastern North Carolina. Included are images and videos from historic locations.
  • History Wired: A Few of Our Favorite Things Take a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History. Choose from hundreds of museum artifacts, most of which are not currently on exhibit.
  • Lesson plan: Good medicine Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.

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  • Good medicine: Students will examine changes in technology, medicine, and health that took place in North Carolina between 1870 and 1930 and construct products and ideas which demonstrate understanding of how these changes impacted people living in North Carolina at that time. To achieve these goals, students will employ the eight intelligences of Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory.
  • Rocky Mount Children's Museum and Science Center: Students will love visiting the Rocky Mount Children's Museum and Science Center. The exhibits are fun, hands-on, and engaging.
  • Cape Fear Museum of History and Science: The estimated 40,000+ artifacts in the collection of the Cape Fear Museum of History and Science relate to the history, science and cultures of the Lower Cape Fear.

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Begun as a memorial to Dr. Howard Franklin Freeman and Dr. Cornelius Henry Brantley, the County Doctor Museum is a composite restoration of their offices. The museum includes an apothecary area, instruments, and equipment of the mid to late 1800s. The diaries, papers and medical books of these rural physicians are preserved here as well.

East Carolina University’s Joyner Library has formed a partnership with the Country Doctor Museum to digitize the museum’s artifacts and local history materials. This has resulted in “zoomable maps, zoomable images and video footage of the artifacts, as well as related alignments and lesson plans for North Carolina educators.” Macromedia Flash is required to view the videos.

Now owned by the Medical Foundation of East Carolina University, the museum will be "developed as a training ground for ECU students in public history, education, and design." Exhibits will be created that will allow school children to "gain insight into the history of various aspects of rural health care."

The museum is located in Bailey, North Carolina and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Reservations are required for large groups and group rates are available. Call 252-235-4165 or send email to bkc1226@ecu.edu for more information or to arrange a visit.

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