Granville County Historical Society Museum
Learn about the rich heritage of Granville County through the exhibits at this museum in Oxford, North Carolina.
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- History Wired: A Few of Our Favorite Things Take a virtual tour of selected objects from the vast collections of the National Museum of American History. Choose from hundreds of museum artifacts, most of which are not currently on exhibit.
- 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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- Border Belt Farmers Museum: Not only will students learn about the history of tobacco farming, they will discover other important industries to this southern North Carolina county.
- Museum of the Cherokee Indian: Official site of the museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
- Waynesborough Historic Village: Visitors to this recreated village will feel as if the have stepped back in time. "Waynesborough's focus begins in 1701 with the first Tuscarora visit and ends in 1900 with a complete economic and social shift to Goldsboro."
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- Learn more about American Indians, Granville County, North Carolina, North Carolinians, Tuscarora, farming, history, history museums, local history, and tobacco.
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Located in the old Granville County jail, this renovated museum’s mission is to preserve the rich heritage of the county which includes the early Native American Tuscarora tribe, the colonial and revolutionary war period, its influential citizens, the Civil War, and the tobacco industry.
Visitors to the museum will begin their tour viewing a history of Granville County in the museum’s new theater which has seats which were salvaged from Oxford’s Orpheum Theater. The tour includes both audio and video displays of Granville County residents relating their life experiences to visitors.
The ground floor is devoted to Native Americans as well as the importance of agriculture in the county. Upstairs visitors will see memorabilia collected from Oxford College and Horner Military Academy. Military uniforms of residents who fought in the Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, the Korean conflict, the Vietnam War, and Iraq War are also on display. There is even a section of the museum devoted to moonshining which was prevalent in the area a long time ago.
The museum is located in downtown Oxford and is open Wednesday through Friday 10AM - 4PM and Saturday 11AM - 3PM. Admission is free. For more information, please call (919) 693-9706 or send email to gcmuseum@earthlink.net.
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