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- Great Smoky Mountains National Park Mountain Farm Museum
- Historic buildings, farm animals, and demonstrations can be seen at the Smoky Mountains National Park Mountian Farm Museum.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Georgia rice field workers

- 19th-century image of four Georgia rice field workers.
- Format: image/photograph
- Reading primary sources: Newspaper advertisements
- This interactive guide to reading classified advertisements in a 19th-century newspaper editorial steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: newspaper (multiple pages)
- 19th-century street in Cartagena, Colombia

- A block-long weather-beaten building borders a 19th-century street in Cartagena, Colombia. Cartagena is a large seaport town on Colombia's northern coast. It was settled in 1533 by Spanish conquistadors and was an important seaport during the colonial period....
- Format: image/photograph
- Asa Biggs House
- This house was the home of Asa Biggs, a former U.S. Senator and federal judge prominent in the politics of the day. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and house the Martin County Travel & Tourism Bureau.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Cedarock Historical Farm
- Relive the American way of life at this farm which dates back to the 1830s.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Old Burke County Courthouse and Heritage Museum
- Students can learn about the history of Burke County and the sessions of the NC Supreme Court held on this site in the mid-19th century when visiting the Old Burke County Courthouse.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Greenville Museum of Art
- Permanent exhibits include 19th and 20th century art, North Carolina art and an impressive collection of Jugtown pottery.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Bostick Schoolhouse
- Visit a restored 159 year old restored one-room school house near Ellerbe, North Carolina to learn how students were taught in the 19th century.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Old Wilkes Walking Tour
- Touring Old Wilkesboro gives students insight into the town's past. Historic refurbished buildings with authentic artifacts show what life in Wilkesboro was like from the 1700s to the present.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Historic Johnson Farm
- Students will feel as if they have gone back in time when they take a tour of this 19th century tobacco farm located near Hendersonville.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Alamance County Historical Museum
- Learn about the history of Alamance County on a field trip to this museum.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- 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.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Historic Oak View County Park
- This nineteenth century farmstead has been made into a county park and is devoted to interpreting the area's agricultural and rural heritage for the citizens of Wake County.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- 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.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Shelton House Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts
- Housed in a historic home in Waynesville, NC, the Museum of NC Handicrafts displays 19th century crafts, musical instruments, and Native American artifacts.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Historic 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.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Cary Heritage Museum at the Page Walker Hotel
- Learn about the heritage of the Town of Cary and see how it has grown from a railroad community to the city of today.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Historic Latta Plantation
- A living history farm 20 miles north of Charlotte features an African American exhibit, virtual tour and history of this once cotton plantation, activities for kids, and teacher resources.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Roanoke Canal Museum and Trail
- Now a hiking trail, the Roanoke Canal "shows some of the best preserved early 19th-century canal construction in the nation."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity