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- Antislavery feeling in the mountains
- In Antebellum North Carolina, page 1.12
- In this excerpt from his book (1860), Frederick Law Olmsted describes his interactions with residents of the Appalachian region and their opinions on slavery. Includes historical commentary. Note: This source contains explicit language or content that requires mature discussion.
- Format: book
- Commentary and sidebar notes by David Walbert.
- A log house in the woods of antebellum North Carolina
- Two people stand talking in front of a log cabin surrounded by pine trees. Pigs roam freely in the yard where two children are playing. A pelt hangs on the wall of the cabin. Another person, possibly a slave, is working in the woods nearby.
- Format: image/illustration
- Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the antebellum period (1830–1860). Topics include slavery, daily life, agriculture, industry, technology, and the arts, as well as the events leading to secession and civil war.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate
- This tour of “America's Castle” explains the technological features George Vanderbilt incorporated into his turn-of-the-century home.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Biltmore Estate
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.1
- George Washington Vanderbilt inherited a tremendous sum of money and used it to build a massive house and grounds near Asheville.
- Format: article
- Naval stores and the longleaf pine
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.4
- North Carolina's extensive longleaf pine forests provided the natural resources needed to produce materials needed to build and maintain ships -- not only timber but tar, pitch, and rosin. These "naval stores" became North Carolina's most important indusstry in the eighteenth century, but today, the longleaf pine forests are nearly gone.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- The tabasco water heater and hot water in Biltmore House
- In A technological tour of the Biltmore Estate, page 7
- Introduction to the boiler room Although this room is called the Boiler Room, a number of interesting features relating to various technologies can be seen here, including the elevator controller and modern DC generator. The platform and wire cage...
- By Sue Clark McKendree.
