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- 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)
- 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
- Methodist camp meeting, March 1, 1819
- Format: image/illustration
- Quaker Meadows Plantation
- Tour the plantation of Captain Charles McDowell, Jr. and see what it was like to live in antebellum Burke County.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Southern Business Directory and General Commercial Advertiser, 1854 (excerpt)
- Format: document/book
- Religious camp meeting
- Format: image/painting
- The Mill Prong House
- This historic home was restored in 1993 and was built by John Gilchrist, an important political and social leader in this area in 1802.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts
- A spectacular example of antebellum architecture, this home was commandeered by Federal troops after the fall of Fort Fisher during the Civil War. The Bellamy Mansion is now a museum that focuses on history and the design arts and offers tours.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The United States and territories in 1850
- Format: image/map
- Davidson County Historical Museum
- Located in the Old Davidson County Courthouse (ca. 1858), the Museum is the centerpiece of Uptown Lexington's National Register Historic District. Visit the Museum to learn more about local and regional history while exploring the grandest of North Carolina's antebellum courthouses.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- North Carolina enslaved population by county, 1860
- Format: image/map
- Mendenhall Plantation
- A visit to the Mendenhall Plantation shows students that there were dissenters to slavery in antebellum North Carolina. Buildings on the property include the main house, an old school house, the Madison Lindsay House and Medical School, a spring house, and a barn. There is also a restored wagon that may have been used to help runaway slaves.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Freeman-Marks House and Isaiah W. Snuggs House
- Both listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the I.W. Snuggs House and the Freeman-Marks House are important reminders of the heritage and culture of Stanly County.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts in Wilmington, NC
- This is the Bellamy Mansion Museum of History and Design Arts in Wilmington, North Carolina. This mansion is a premier architectural and historical treasure in North Carolina, a spectacular example of antebellum architecture. The Bellamy Mansion offers tours,...
- 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)
- North Carolina counties, 1840
- Map of North Carolina counties as their borders were drawn (roughly) in 1840.
- Format: image/map
- 1853 map of North Carolina
- Map titled "A new map of Nth. Carolina: with its canals, roads & distances from place to place, along the stage & steam boat routes." Shows North Carolina as it existed c. 1850.
- Format: image/map
- Poplar Grove Plantation
- Students will enjoy touring the big house and tenant farmer's cabin, the craft shops, and the blacksmith's shop at Poplar Grove Plantation.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Foscue Plantation House
- This restored plantation home exhibits family artifacts and period pieces. As a Union hospital during the Civil War, it was spared destruction by Federal forces.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Waynesborough Historic Village
- Visitors to this recreated village will feel as if the have stepped back in time. "Waynesborough's focus begins in 1701 with the first Tuscarora visit and ends in 1900 with a complete economic and social shift to Goldsboro."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
