Hickory Ridge Homestead

Visitors get insight into the lifestyle of early mountain settlers, how they lived, and what constituted a 'typical' mountain homestead at this eighteenth-century living history museum.

http://www.horninthewest.com/museum.htm

Links

• Crafting North Carolina: A Hands on Exploration of North Carolina's Hand-made Heritage North Carolina's geography, history, and resources brought to life through the crafts of the state.
• Documenting the American South Ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs for the study of Southern history, literature, and culture.
• Historical Highlights of North Carolina A brief history of the state beginning with the early history and a description of many of the native tribes of North Carolina including the Cherokee, Catawba, and the Coastal Algonquian. Find information about the Colonial Period, the Halifax Resolves, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and significant events in the twentieth century.
• 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: Interpreting Diaries of the American South Students will read diaries of individuals who lived in the American South from 1865-1917. After reading these diaries the students will use a visual means of displaying their interpretation. Visual presentations will be one of the following: shadow box, poster, PowerPoint using drawings done by the student, brochure, or presenting an item that would have been used during the time that their diary was written.
• Lesson plan: Why is the past important? As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.

Related pages

• The Charlotte Museum of History: Permanent exhibits in the Charlotte Museum of History include Native American artifacts, representations of the colonial settlers, interactive dioramas of how the town of Charlotte looked in 1775, gold mining, the Civil War, and 2oth century topics. There are also temporary exhibits.
• Mountain Gateway Museum: A trip to the Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort gives students a look into the past and helps them understand the importance of preserving local and regional history.
• John C. Campbell Folk School: The Folk School offers visitors a chance to experience a special blend of history, art and natural beauty in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

Learn more

• Learn more about 18th century, 19th Century, 20th century, Great Depression, North Carolina, Watauga County, arts, buildings, crafts, historical dramas, history, pioneers, and textiles.

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Located in Boone, North Carolina, Hickory Ridge Homestead is part of the Southern Appalachian Historical Association, producers of the third oldest outdoor drama, the Horn in the West. Hickory Ridge Homestead has eight log buildings on its grounds which date from 1785 to the early 1930s. All the buildings, with the exception of the smokehouse, came from different locations in Watauga County. The smokehouse was built on-site using 18th century tools.

The Homestead is free to the general public. The grounds are open year round for self-guided tours. The buildings are open with costumed interpreters at specific times during the year. For more information about the programs offered by the Homestead, please call (828) 264-2120 and ask for the Education Coordinator.

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