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Camden County Heritage Museum

Visitors to this museum can see historic artifacts of Camden County as well as the preserved county jail.

http://www.elizabethcitychamber.org/visitor/entertainment.asp

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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.

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  • Onslow County Museum: Learn about the history of Onlsow County and "retrace the area's progression from 65 million years ago to the present."
  • The Tom Little Museum: See artifacts from life in Anson County in the past, from farming and carpentry to toys and even arrowheads.
  • East Carolina Village of Yesteryear: The museum displays depict one hundred years of North Carolina history. With nineteen buildings, and over two thousand artifacts, the village promotes NC life from 1840 to 1940.

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This museum is housed in the former Camden County jail circa 1910. The second story cells have been fully restored and are open to the public. The museum is a well preserved reminder of local methods of incarceration at the turn of the century and also documents the history of Camden County with changing exhibits. Call 252-338-1919 for more information.

Please see photographs of the Camden County Jail Museum from NC ECHO.