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Johnston County Heritage Center
Learn about the history of Johnston County at this Heritage Center which houses interpretive exhibits and primary source documents.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Transylvania Heritage Museum
Students will learn the importance of heritage when they visit this museum in the mountains of Transylvania County. Its exhibits celebrate the history of the area and and take visitors back in time.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Scottish Heritage Center
The earliest settlers of Scotland County were Highland Scots. The Scottish Heritage Center celebrates the music, history, and culture of these ancestors.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Caldwell Heritage Museum
Visit the Caldwell Heritage Museum and learn about the chronological history of Caldwell County from pre-colonial days until the present.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
The Iredell Museums: The Iredell Museum of Arts and Heritage
Visit the museum to explore exhibits with scientific and historic interest.
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Heritage Square
Located in Fayetteville, Heritage Square has some of the most beautiful homes of the early 19th century. Guided tours are available on request.
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The Cary Heritage Museum at the Page Walker Hotel
Learn about the heritage of the Town of Cary and see how it has grown from a railroad community to the city of today.
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Wilkes County Heritage Museum
The Old Wilkes County Courthouse is now a museum which showcases the rich history of this county.
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The Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
Learn about the heritage of the "down east" people and explore the cultural and natural resources of the Core Sound region of North Carolina.
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YMI Cultural Center
This cultural center was created to preserve the visual and performing arts heritages of African-Americans and other minorities. The Center has an art gallery with over 100 works of art from renowned artists such as Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, John Biggers. It also offers art classes to all age groups.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Tannenbaum Historic Park
Students can explore the past through the historic buildings and artifacts found at Greensboro's Historic Tannenbaum Park.
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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
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
Battleship North Carolina
Uses a variety of formats including oral histories, video footage, and zoomable images to cover the history of the USS North Carolina and other naval vessels afloat during WWII.
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The History Museum of Burke County
Objects, artifacts, and documents representing Burke County's heritage can be found in this museum in Morganton, NC.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission Museum
Stanly County created this museum to preserve the heritage resources of the area for generations to come. The exhibits cover the history of Stanly County from ancient times to the present.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Western Carolina University Mountain Heritage Center
The Museum provides exhibitions and programs that illustrate many of the complex issues and concerns of Appalachia's diverse people and cultures. Students discover how history relates to their own lives as they explore the many themes relevant to western North Carolina's past, present, and future.
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A land of many wetlands
In Wetlands of the coastal plains, page 1
Eastern North Carolina is a land of many wetlands. More than forty different types have been identified by botanists with the state's Natural Heritage Program. Geographically, this wetland heritage was achieved in the most straightforward way: all of the land...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Modern art pottery
In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 20
Figure 18 shows some examples of the finished product of the potter's art. These amazingly large objects were made by Mark Hewitt and fired in the kiln shown in Figure 15. These pots represent the acme of modern Piedmont art pottery in North Carolina. They...
By Dirk Frankenberg.
Camden County Heritage Museum
Visitors to this museum can see historic artifacts of Camden County as well as the preserved county jail.
Format: article/field trip opportunity