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Hope Plantation
Located near Windsor, NC, the plantation complex offers unique insights into the late 18th- and 19th-century rural life in eastern North Carolina and the South.
http://www.hopeplantation.org/
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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.
- 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.
- North Carolina Governors This site contains short biographies and information on the terms of North Carolina's governors.
- Eastern North Carolina Digital Library Digitization project encompassing collections pertaining to the history of eastern North Carolina. Included are images and videos from historic locations.
- 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
- 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.
- Allison- Deaver House Museum: The N.C. Division of Archives and History has named this the oldest frame house in the mountains of North Carolina. It has never been altered and is an excellent representation of the construction of the early 1800s.
- Historic Rosedale Plantation: Located a few miles from the center of downtown Charlotte, the Rosedale Plantation is a good representation of plantation life in Piedmont North Carolina.
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- Learn more about 18th century, 19th Century, Bertie County, North Carolina, architecture, artifacts, arts, historic house museums, history, and rural life.
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Tour the authentically furnished c. 1803 Hope Plantation, home of Governor David Stone, the 1763 King-Blazemore House, and the Samuel Cox House. Walk the plantation grounds and the Hope Forest nature trails. The modern Roanoke-Chowan Heritage Center features regional exhibits and annual celebrations of Native American and African-American heritage.
The Hope Plantation is located four miles from Windsor on NC 308. Call (252) 794-3140 for information. Admission is charged. Bertie County school children admitted free.
See the Life at a Federal Plantation Teacher’s Workbook for eighth grade social studies and Life at a Federal Plantation Teacher’s Workbook for fourth grade. Both have instructions for touring Hope Plantation as well as lesson plans and activities.