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Moses Cone Memorial Park and Flat Top Manor: This historic mansion houses one of five shops of the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. The crafts which include jewelry, pottery, glass figurines, and framed and unframed artwork are handmade by over 300 regional artists. Visitors can hear how the artists have come to make these wonderful crafts.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Mayapple flowers at the Moses Cone Manor: These are mayapple flowers at the Moses Cone Manor in Watauga County, North Carolina. Mayapples cover many of the wooded thickets throughout the county. They have a low, shiny, umbrella-shaped spread of leaves and grow in lush carpets. Their flowers are located...; Format: image/photograph

Joe Brown: Joe Brown, a teenager from Watauga County, North Carolina, is shown with his cow and calf in this black and white photo taken in March 1938. He was participating in a 4-H “Baby Beef Project.” Wearing a hat, he is standing outside in front of a...; Format: image/photograph

Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway: This is the Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Watauga County. It can be seen in the background of this photo, curving around Grandfather Mountain. The roadway in the foreground is a bridge. Most of the nearly 470 miles of the Parkway were completed...; Format: image/photograph

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

Blue Ridge Parkway: Contains information about various cultural, natural, and recreational resources located along this beautiful and historical roadway.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

Appalachian Cultural Museum: This museum offers over twenty exhibit areas that present an intriguing overview of the people and places of the Blue Ridge Mountains.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The Blowing Rock in Blowing Rock, North Carolina: This is the Blowing Rock in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. It is named after a Native American story in which two lovers from opposing tribes, the Catawba and the Cherokee, are walking near the rock. When a red sky signals that the brave must return to duty,...; Format: image/photograph

Flat Top Manor as viewed from Bass Lake: This is Flat Top Manor as viewed from Bass Lake in the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park. This was the house of Linda and Moses Cone. Moses Cone was renowned for his achievements in the textile business. He was industrious and business-savvy but treated even his...; Format: image/photograph

Mystery Hill, Appalachian Heritage Museum and The Native American Artifacts Museum: Visitors will experience strange phenomena which some believe is attributed to a gravitational anomaly known as a vortex, learn about the ancient native people of the area, and see what it would have been like to live at the turn of the century at the Mystery Hill museums.; Format: article/field trip opportunity

The campus of Appalachian State University from above: This is the campus of Appalachian State University as seen from above. ASU is located in Boone, North Carolina.; Format: image/photograph

The Rutherford Expedition: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 4.3; The Cherokee, hoping to protect their lands from white settlement, sided with Britain in the American Revolution. In 1776, responding to Cherokee attacks, General Griffith Rutherford led an expedition against the Cherokee, taking slaves, burning villages, and destroying crops and food stores.; Format: article

Carriage trail in snow at Flat Top Manor: This is a carriage trail in snow at Flat Top Manor near Boone, North Carolina. Flat Top Manor was the house of Linda and Moses Cone. Moses Cone was renowned for his achievements in the textile business. He was industrious and business-savvy but treated even...; Format: image/photograph

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...

Rutherford Trace: In 1776, during the War for Independence, an expedition led by Griffith Rutherford sought to eliminate the Cherokee as a British ally and to punish them for attacking white settlements. In one month, Rutherford’s men left dozens of Cherokee villages in ruins with hundreds of acres of crops destroyed and livestock killed or seized. Residents of western North Carolina still tell multiple sides of the story.; Format: article

North Carolina State University: In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.2; North Carolina State University was founded in 1887 as the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, a land-grant institution that would provide teaching, research and extension services to the people of the state. This article gives a brief history of the school from its founding to the present day.; Format: article

A timeline of North Carolina colleges and universities, 1865–1900: In North Carolina in the New South, page 4.1; Timeline of colleges and universities founded in North Carolina between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century.; Format: timeline; By Jill Molloy.

The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain: In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 5.4; In October 1780, in response to a British threat in the Carolina backcountry, Patriot militias gathered in the mountains of present-day North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. They marched southeast to a site near present-day Morganton, joined forces, and proceeded to defeat Loyalist militias at the Battle of King's Mountain in South Carolina. The battle helped turn the tide of the war for independence.; Format: article; By Randell Jones.

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