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Vance Birthplace (NC Historic Site)
Zebulon Baird Vance homeplace website. Learn about the birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance, as well as Vance's famous mountain family on this site.
http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hs/vance/vance.htm
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- North Carolina Governors This site contains short biographies and information on the terms of North Carolina's governors.
- North Carolina's Historical People and Places Facts, images, and links to the people and places that are most important to North Carolina History.
- 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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- Aycock Birthplace: This typical nineteenth-century family farm, birthplace of Governor Charles Brantley Aycock, includes the main house, separate open-hearth kitchen, corn crib, and smokehouses. Scheduled groups get a genuine hands-on experience making butter or dipping candles for a small fee.
- Somerset Place (NC Historic Site): Located on the banks of Phelps Lake, Somerset Place is a representative antebellum plantation offering a view of life during the period before the Civil War. It became one of North Carolina's most prosperous rice, corn, and wheat plantations.
- The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough: Take students on a guided walking tour through Hillsborough's historic district and go inside the Norwood Law Office, the Orange County Historical Museum, the Burwell School Historic Site, and the Hughes Academy. Along the way they will also see the Old Orange County Courthouse, historic churches, cemeteries, colonial and antebellum homes, and much more.
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- Learn more about 19th Century, Buncombe County, Governor, North Carolina, Zebulon Baird Vance, architecture, civil war, farms, historic site, history, homestead, log cabins, pioneers, and politics.
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Students can see a pioneer farmstead that features the birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance. The five-room log house which was rebuilt around original chimneys and its outbuildings are furnished to interpret the period from 1795 to 1840. Vance was a Civil War officer, governor of North Carolina, and a U.S. senator. Learn about Vance’s famous mountain family on this site, as well.
Open Monday through Friday from 9:00am to 5:00pm, the home is located at 911 Reems Creek Rd. in the picturesque Reems Creek Valley For information, call:(828) 645-6706 or send email to vance@ncmail.net