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A swamp in Nash County, NC: This is a swamp in Nash County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Produce from Wild Onion Farms in Nash County, NC: This is produce from Wild Onion Farms in Nash County, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

Downtown Rocky Mount, NC: This is downtown Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Rocky Mount is located on the line between Nash and Edgecombe Counties.; Format: image/photograph

A fixer upper near Rocky Mount, NC: This is a fixer-upper near Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in Nash County.; Format: image/photograph

The County Doctor Museum: The Country Doctor Museum offers visitors a unique opportunity to learn about the history of health care.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Historic train station in Rocky Mount, NC: This is the historic train station in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. The building was originally one story, but over time, second and third stories were added to the side wings and later the entire structure. The building is still in use and is part of Rocky...; Format: image/photograph

The Imperial Center in Rocky Mount, NC: This is the Imperial Center in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. After Hurricane Floyd flooded the Art Center and the Children's Museum in September of 1999, the city decided to relocate them to the old Imperial Tobacco Factory to prevent further flooding.; Format: image/photograph

Rocky Mount Children's Museum and Science Center: Students will love visiting the Rocky Mount Children's Museum and Science Center. The exhibits are fun, hands-on, and engaging.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

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

U.S. House of Representatives: In Election 2008, page 2.4; There are 13 congressional districts in North Carolina. A map of North Carolina's congressional districts is available from...

U.S. House of Representatives: There are 13 congressional districts in North Carolina. A map of North Carolina's congressional districts is available from...

Edmund Fanning reports to Governor Tryon: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 1.5; Letter from Edmund Fanning to Governor William Tryon, April 23, 1768, reporting on the activities of the Regulators. Shows how the Regulators were seen by colonial leaders. Includes historical commentary.; Format: letter

Effects of civil action: In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

1835 amendments to the North Carolina Constitution: In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 11.3; Amendments to the North Carolina state constitution passed in 1835. Includes historical commentary.; Format: constitution

Shadows of a people: In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.3; Archaeologists divide North Carolina's prehistory -- the time before contact with Europeans -- into four periods: Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian.; Format: article

Small-town businesses, 1903: In North Carolina in the New South, page 2.11; Excerpts from The North Carolina Year Book and Business Directory, 1903, for the towns of Jefferson and Washington. Includes historical commentary.; Format: book; Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

The First Provincial Congress: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 2.6; After the Boston Tea Party in December 1773, Britain retaliated with a series of punitive measures that colonists called the "intolerable acts." In August 1774, North Carolina's colonial leaders met at New Bern to set out their princples, to plan further opposition to Britain, and to choose delegates to a Continental Congress. This excerpt from the proceedings of that First Provincial Congress includes historical commentary.; Format: document

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