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Historic Murfreesboro

Students will enjoy taking a trip to the Murfreesboro historic district and exploring the houses and buildings on the tour.

Preview your trip on the web: Historic Murfreesboro

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  • 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.
  • Crafting North Carolina: A Hands on Exploration of North Carolina's Hand-made Heritage North Carolina's geography, history, and resources brought to life through the crafts of the state.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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  • Poplar Grove Plantation: Students will enjoy touring the big house and tenant farmer's cabin, the craft shops, and the blacksmith's shop at Poplar Grove Plantation.
  • Bea Hensley, Blacksmith: A National Heritage Fellowship Award winner, Bea Hensley has been blacksmithing since he was a young man. Today, he and his son give demonstrations of traditional techniques to create fine ornamental ironwork.
  • Meherrin Indian Tribe powwow: Attend a powwow and see demonstrations of Meherrin Indian culture through dance, a drum competition, pottery, and beading.

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The Historic District of Murfreesboro contains outstanding examples of houses and commercial buildings constructed in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. There you will find the Roberts-Vaughan Village Center, the Wheeler House, the Winborne Law Office/Country Store, the Rea Museum, the Blacksmith’s Shop, the Murfree-Smith Law Office, the Hertford Academy/Southall Cemetery, and the Brady C. Jefcoat Museum.

For information on visiting Historic Murfreesboro, call (252) 398-5922, send e-mail to: mha@murfreesboronc.org.