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Liberty Hall
This fully restored home built in the early 1850s shows what life was like in rural North Carolina over 150 years ago.
http://www.itpi.dpi.state.nc.us/nchistorical/liberty.html
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- Antebellum North Carolina An online collection of primary documents and images from the antebellum in North Carolina that accompany a lesson place about antebellum society in North Carolina with regard to reform movements and the history and status of blacks.
- A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln Explores America before the Civil War, slavery, the slavery debate, the events leading to the war, the war itself, and how it affected politics and society. Learn also about the state of the country once the war ended and what obstacles lay ahead for the country at this tenuous time. Includes historical images and primary source documents.
- Lesson plan: Antebellum North Carolina In this lesson students will examine pictures & documents relating to the Hayes Plantation (Edenton, NC). Students will also use various maps of North Carolina to help them analyze how James Cathcart Johnston (owner of Hayes Plantation) used, modified and adapted to the physical environment of Edenton.
Students will decipher original manuscripts from the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill Campus and draw conclusions about antebellum society in North Carolina with regard to reform movements and the history and status of blacks.
From a list of volumes found in the Hayes Plantation Library exhibit at the North Carolina Collection Gallery, students will determine what catagories of books were most prevalent in the library and hypothesize as to why those types of books would be so important to an antebellum plantation owner.
Click Here to access Photographs & documents relating to this lesson plan.
Related pages
- Buckner Hill Plantation: This plantation home is a good example of Greek Revival architecture. It features elaborate plaster moldings, high ceilings, and wide halls and the rooms are furnished with period furniture. Open by appointment only.
- The Mill Prong House: This historic home was restored in 1993 and was built by John Gilchrist, an important political and social leader in this area in 1802.
- Harmony Hall Plantation: This historic home in Bladen County sits on a property with other old buildings which include 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.
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- Learn more about Duplin County, North Carolina, antebellum, architecture, arts, historic houses, museums, plantations, and slavery.
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Come to Liberty Hall and discover North Carolina as it was 150 years ago. Meet the Kenan family in the Visitors Center’s Theater. Tour the main house and share the life of a comfortable Southern plantation family of the 1850’s. Stroll the garden paths and listen to the tunes of friendly songbirds. Visit the ten “dependencies” (support buildings) that contributed to the everyday life on a Southern plantation.
Open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Mondays. Admission is charged. Call 1-800-755-1755 for more information.