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- 4-H Rural Life Center
- A great place to experience rural life in Halifax County in the early 1900's.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Historic Halifax
- Contains brief information about the early settlement and later rebirth of the town as well as the Revolutionary War. Find also a listing of special events.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- A blooming cotton field in Halifax County, NC
- A cotton field blooms in early November in Halifax County, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Eagle Tavern in Halifax, North Carolina
- The Eagle Tavern in Halifax, North Carolina, is one of that town's surviving eighteenth-century structures.
- Format: image/photograph
- Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina.
- An African American boy stands at an outdoor drinking fountain. A sign on a nearby tree marks the fountain as "Colored."
- Format: image/photograph
- Mallards taking off of Lake Gaston
- Mallard ducks make a running start as they take off of Lake Gaston in Warren County, North Carolina. Lake Gaston is also partially located in Northampton County, Halifax County, and part of Virginia.
- Format: image/photograph
- A sunset on Lake Gaston
- This is a sunset on Lake Gaston in Warren County, North Carolina. Lake Gaston is also partially located in Northampton County, Halifax County, and part of Virginia.
- Format: image/photograph
- A blue heron in flight on Lake Gaston
- A blue heron takes flight on Lake Gaston in Warren County, North Carolina. Lake Gaston is also partially located in Northampton County, Halifax County, and part of Virginia.
- Format: image/photograph
- The Halifax Resolves
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 3.10
- After the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, North Carolina's fourth Provincial Congress met at Halifax in April 1776, and resolved that the colony's delegates to the Continental Congress should support a move to declare independence. Primary source includes historical commentary.
- Format: proclamation
- The historic Roanoke Canal in Halifax County, NC
- This is the historic Roanoke Canal in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. The Roanoke Canal Museum is located in the building up the stairs at the right.
- Format: image/photograph
- Willie Jones
- Short biography of Willie Jones, Revolutionary statemsan and anti-federalist from Halifax, North Carolina.
- Format: biography
- Revolutionary North Carolina
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the era of the American Revolution. Topics include the Regulators, the resistance to Great Britain, the War for Indpendence, and the creation of new governments.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- "Can the very spirit of freedom die out?"
- In North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction, page 7.15
- Diary of Catherine Anne Devereux Edmondston, May 7, 1865, bemoaning the Confederate surrender. Includes historical commentary.
- Format: diary
- Archaeological sites open to the public
- A listing of field trip opportunities focusing on Native Americans as well as colonial times in North Carolina. Organized by county.
- Format: article
- William Richardson Davie (1756–1820)
- William Richardson Davie was a prominent North Carolina lawyer, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, governor, and founder of the University of North Carolina.
- Format: biography
- A capital in the "wilderness"
- In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 1.4
- In 1792, the North Carolina General Assembly voted to place a permanent state capital in Wake County. Joel Lane sold 1,000 acres of land to the state, and in the years that followed, the city of Raleigh was planned and built.
- Format: article
- North Carolina in the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1860–1876). Topics include debates over secession, battles and strategies, the war in North Carolina, the soldier's experience, the home front, freedom and civil rights for former slaves, Reconstruction, and the "redemption" of the state by conservatives.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- 1779 map of North Carolina
- At first glance, this 1779 map of North Carolina appears to be a disorienting jumble of words. The counties are labeled, but their borders are not delineated. Rivers, on the other hand, are carefully labeled, as are court houses, chapels, and Quaker meeting...
- Format: image/map
- Ducks in a row at the Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park
- Ducks swim side by side at the Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park in Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
- Format: image/photograph
- Instructors taking a break from a lecture at the Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park
- Instructors take a break from a lecture at the Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park. The park provides educational tours and programs in the conservation of rare and endangered waterfowl.
- Format: image/photograph
