LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Carson House

Pleasant Gardens was one of the earliest settlements in the area. It is home to the beautifully landscaped Carson House, a stagecoach inn built in the 1700s and now a pioneer history museum listed on the National Register.

Preview your trip on the web: Carson House

Learn more

  • 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.
  • 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.

Related pages

  • Harmony Hall Plantation: This historic home in Bladen County sits on a property with other old buildings including 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.
  • Harmony Hall - Lenoir: Owned by North Carolina's first governor and site of a Civil War hospital, Harmony Hall is the only house of historical significance in Kinston.
  • Freeman-Marks House and Isaiah W. Snuggs House: Both listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the I.W. Snuggs House and the Freeman-Marks House are important reminders of the heritage and culture of Stanly County.

Related topics

Legal

The text of this page is copyright ©2008. See terms of use. Images and other media may be licensed separately; see captions for more information and read the fine print.

Built as a walnut log cabin in the early 1800s, this home once served as a stagecoach inn and the seat of the county government until the courthouse was constructed. The Carson House entertained famous Americans such as Davey Crockett, Sam Houston, and Andrew Jackson. This historic home and private, non-profit museum is currently filled with unusual household and plantation artifacts.

The Carson House is open from May through October, Tuesday through Saturday. All other times it is open by appointment. The home is located in Pleasant Gardens on US Highway 70, west of Marion. For more information or to schedule a visit, call (704) 724-4640 or (704) 724-4948. Admission is $3.00 for adults and $l.50 for children.

Also, see more informationon the Carson House and biographical information on Samuel Price Carson.

View Larger Map