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Cowan Museum

A trip through Cowan Museum is a hands-on learning and entertaining experience for all ages.

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  • 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: Reading, writing and 'rithmetic in the one-room schoolhouse This lesson focuses on the universal experience of attending school, using original photographs to give students a vivid impression of how American children received an education a hundred years ago.

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  • Historic Oak View County Park: This nineteenth century farmstead has been made into a county park and is devoted to interpreting the area's agricultural and rural heritage for the citizens of Wake County.
  • Tarkil Branch Farm's Homestead Museum: Take a trip back in time to this working farm and museum. Comprised of 32 exhibits and over 850 items, students studying North Carolina history will see what it was like living on a farm in the nineteenth century.
  • The Davenport Homestead: See what everyday life was like over 200 years ago at the Davenport Homestead. The main house is the original home of Washington County's first state senator, Daniel Davenport.

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The museum features several thousand rare and unusual artifacts highlighting early rural America. Among the items is an extensive collection of wood-working tools, farm implements and household utensils. The grounds have several outbuildings: a one-room log schoolhouse, a furnished one-room log cabin, and a restored log tobacco barn.

Open 10am - 4pm Tuesday - Saturday, and 2pm - 4pm Sunday. The museum is closed Mondays and holidays. Admission is free. Call 910-296-2149 for more information.

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