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- Chatham County Historical Association: Log Cabin Restoration Project
- Visit the two log cabins that are being reconstructed by the Chatham Country Historical Association. Students will see how these structures were built and what life was like in the days of the pioneers.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Anson County Historical Society
- This nonprofit organization provides educational, cultural, and recreational information concerning the rich history of Anson County.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Greater Fair Bluff Historical Society Depot Museum
- Students can learn about their Columbus County's history through artifacts and other exhibits at the Greater Fair Bluff Historical Society Depot Museum.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Bladenboro Historical Society Museum
- Step back into the past at the old Bladenboro Farm Life School and discover the history of Bladenboro, North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Rockingham County Historical Village
- An original tobacco factory, a barn, a one-room school house, and a corn crib have been restored and make up the Rockingham County Historical Village.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Davenport Homestead
- See what everyday life was like over 200 years ago at the Davenport Homestead. The main house is the original home of Washington County's first state senator, Daniel Davenport.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Belmont Historical Society Cultural and Heritage Learning Center
- Step back in time and learn about the history of Belmont, North Carolina through photographs, artifacts and other exhibits.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- 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)
- Granville County Historical Society Museum
- Learn about the rich heritage of Granville County through the exhibits at this museum in Oxford, North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- African American Moravian log church
- This small log church was built in Salem, North Carolina in 1823 as the Moravian church for African Americans. In 1861, the African American congregation moved to a larger brick church.
- Format: image/photograph
- Allison- Deaver House Museum
- The N.C. Division of Archives and History has named this the oldest frame house in the mountains of North Carolina. It has never been altered and is an excellent representation of the construction of the early 1800s.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- St. Philip's Moravian church lot
- This circa 1866 photograph shows Church Street in Salem, North Carolina. The old African American Moravian log church, built in 1823, can be seen near the center of the image -- it's a small building with two chimneys. The updated brick church, built in 1861,...
- Format: image/photograph
- African American school, Forsyth County
- Circa 1870 photo of the first school for African Americans in Forsyth County. The school was built near Salem in 1867 on Moravian lands south of Salem Creek.
- Format: image/photograph
- Grimes Mill
- Located at 600 North Church Street in Salisbury, this is the only roller mill museum in North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Zachary-Tolbert House
- Tour this home, one of the most important historical buildings in western North Carolina, which has been virtually unaltered since it was built over 150 years ago.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Dred Scott painting
- Painting of Dred Scott, a slave from Missouri and the plaintiff in the infamous Dred Scott Supreme Court Case of 1857. The painting was done by Louis Schultze, commissioned by a "group of Negro citizens," and presented to the Missouri Historical Society, St....
- Format: image/painting
- Women of the South in a changing society
- This lesson examines the lives of women in Southern Appalachia and other areas of the south during the Civil War and focuses particular attention on analyzing the historical stereotypes of women of the 19th-century.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
- By Cindy Mcpeters and Aletha Aldridge.
- "I Declare, I believe this document May Flower!"
- The learner will apply ideas of self-government as expressed in America's founding documents. To be used with/for SLD and other exceptional students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Social Studies)
- By Gary Peterson.
- The Alliance for Historic Hillsborough
- Take students on a guided walking tour through Hillsborough's historic district and go inside the Norwood Law Office, the Orange County Historical Museum, the Burwell School Historic Site, and the Hughes Academy. Along the way they will also see the Old Orange County Courthouse, historic churches, cemeteries, colonial and antebellum homes, and much more.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Macon County Historical Museum
- This Museum's collection includes artifacts from the earliest civilization of the area through the mid twentieth century.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
