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AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAVELER HERITAGE Guide to Historic Sites in

3. Historic Edenton buildings, including the slave hospital, North Carolina’s second oldest town served dairy, kitchen, laundry, and the 14-room as the colony’s first capital from 1722 until Collins mansion. (252) 797-4560 or 1743, later becoming an important stop www.nchistoricsites.org/somerset on the Maritime Underground Railroad 1. Historic Halifax during the Civil War. Guided walking 5. Wright Brothers National Memorial This 1760 town, perched on the southern tours of the historic district leave from the On December 17, 1903, Orville Wright bank of the Roanoke River, became a visitor center and highlight Edenton’s famously took off from Kill Devil Hills in transportation hub and crossroads of famous 18th- and 19th-century buildings, the Wright Flyer I, marking the world’s first politics and culture before the Amer- which include the 1767 Chowan County powered and manned aircraft flight. )

ican Revolution. The 1776 “Halifax courthouse, the 1736 St. Paul’s church, and A 10,000-square-foot visitor center T H G I

Resolves,” drafted here on April 12, the 1827 home of , a U.S. features a full-scale replica of the Flyer R P O T

became the first official action by an Supreme Court Justice. (252) 482-2637 or along with a block from the original engine ( S

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from Britain. Five different guided tours can also see the reconstructed Wright A M Y

of the 40-acre historic district enable visi- 4. brothers’ living quarters and hangar. A R ; )

tors to travel through nine 18th- and The densely forested 100-acre swamp (252) 441-7430 or www.nps.gov/wrbr R E T N

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6. Fort Raleigh National Historic Site P plantation homes, law offices, a jail, and a grew over three generations into one of O T (

springhouse. The visitor center features the largest plantations in the upper England’s first American colony at Roanoke Y N A P

displays on slavery, transportation, and South, producing lumber, wheat, corn, ended in disaster in 1587 when its 117 M O C

colonial clothing. (252) 583-7191 or and rice. Ninety-minute guided tours of settlers mysteriously disappeared. This E R O

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begin in the visitor center, the site of a visitor center with exhibits that explore life in E H T ;

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and the modest 1763 colonial restored earthworks that surrounded A L L I King-Bazemore house, built by the colony and the Elizabethan V M E L

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historic site. Ninety-minute guided or www.nps.gov/fora G A L F tours of both homes pass through ( M O

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ballroom. (252) 794-3140 or exhibit areas: the reproduction C O T S www.hopeplantation.org 16th-century square-rigged sailing I 12 NC Her Trav_Working:AH 3/30/11 5:26 PM Page 72

ship, Elizabeth II; the recreated Roanoke farmer Joseph Bonner. (252) 923-3971 or homesteads, the apothecary shop, jail, and settlement site in which costumed inter- www.nchistoricsites.org/bath county courthouse. (252) 728-5225 or preters demonstrate early-16th-century www.beauforthistoricsite.org 9. Historic Sites woodworking, blacksmithing, and other Royal British Governor 11. activities; the Adventure Museum, which brought archi- Army engineers completed this gives visitors the opportunity to don 16th- tect John Hawks from England 119,586-square-foot pentagonal century clothing, experiment with an early in 1764 to design this 20-room masonry fort on the eastern tip navigational tool known as an astrolabe, and Georgian palace, which of the Bogue Banks in 1834. listen to “Stumpy the Pirate;” and the Amer- served as the center of North During the Civil War in 1862, ican Indian Town, which features a Coastal Carolina’s colonial govern- Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside Algonquian community of longhouses, work ment until the Revolution and 3,000 men bombarded the shelters, and a ceremonial dance circle. ended. Costumed inter- fort, forcing surrender from Col. (252) 475-1500 or www.roanokeisland.com preters lead 45-minute Moses J. White and his 450-man guided tours through the garrison in only 11 hours. Since English-style rooms. The then the fort has served as a military 16-acre grounds contain the separate prison, a state park, and a World-War-II kitchen building, stables, blacksmith shop, coastal fortress. Ranger-guided tours visit and 18th-century British-style gardens. the 26 vaulted casements, gunpowder 8. Historic Bath (252) 639-3500 or www.tryonpalace.org magazines, the ration storage room, living In 1705 French Protestant traders established quarters, and kitchen. The museum, 10. Beaufort Historic Site this town on the Pamlico River at a strategic located inside the fort, contains exhibits on Established in 1709, this shipbuilding and point coveted both by hostile Tuscarora Indi- World War II with weapons, uniforms, fishing town was a bustling deep-water port ans and the infamous pirate Captain “Black- and personal items. (252) 726-3775 or frequented by traders and pirates in the beard.” Forty-five minute guided tours take www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/foma/main.php 18th century and later saw extensive use visitors through seven original 18th- and during the Civil War. Today the historic 12. Wilmington Railroad Museum 19th-century structures, including the 1752 site’s restored 18th- and 19th-century struc- This 1883 railroad freight warehouse, Palmer Marsh house, the oldest residence in tures feature prominently on the 60-minute which contains a 7,500-square-foot the state, as well as the period-furnished guided tours that begin in the welcome museum devoted to Wilmington’s 170 years

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Market House Sandford House Heritage Square Civil WarTrail Site # 2 Gaelic Beginnings Trail Site # 12 The War. World Wars I and II. The Cold War. Fayetteville had a front seat to most of it. So why not get in a car and explore it? We have more American History here than you could get in hundreds of history and audio descriptions. There are books. Not to mention our unique website that’ll help also over a dozen themed driving you plan your trip. It’s called Customize It. Just plug in trails on our site, which literally your interests, budget and travel dates and Customize cover over 750 miles of our rich It will create a distinct itinerary with maps, photos American history. e e VisitFayettevilleNC.com 12 NC Her Trav_Working:AH 3/30/11 5:26 PM Page 73

Bentonville. The last great battle of the Civil War. Just one of more than two hundred interpreted sites found along North Carolina’s Civil War Trails. Request a free brochure at visitnc.com/civilwar or call 1.800.VISIT NC. 12 NC Her Trav_Working:AH 3/30/11 5:27 PM Page 74

baggage scales, and a replicated ticket 19th-century weapons, Civil-War- counter used during the 19th and 20th era photographs, a German centuries when the Wilmington & Weldon periscope from World War I, and a and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad stopped POW bracelet from the Vietnam here. Visitors can climb aboard an 86-ton War. Interactive exhibits enable steam engine, a Potomac Railroad box visitors to handle colonial-era car, and a Seaboard Coast Line caboose. medical tools and Civil War (910) 763-2634 or www.wrrm.org uniforms and equipment, such as a U.S. Cavalry carbine, a dragoon 13. Battleship North Carolina officer’s sabre, and a stoneware When commissioned in April 1941, this water jug taken as loot by a battleship, which could reach speeds up to Confederate soldier at Hampton 28 knots, was one of the U.S. Navy’s great- Roads. (919) 807-7900 or est weapons. Armed with three 45-caliber www.ncmuseumofhistory.org guns and an officer and crew compliment of nearly 2,500, the North Carolina partic- 16. Farm ipated in every major naval offensive in Life Museum World War II’s Pacific Theater. Nine decks This five-acre farm are open to the public; visitors can see the village contains seven radio and engine rooms, gun turrets, and buildings in which crew quarters. (910) 251-5797 or costumed docents www.battleshipnc.com demonstrate the activities of rural 14. State Historic Site 19th-century tobacco This Confederate fort on the Cape Fear planters. The 5,000-square-foot gallery River protected the last remaining supply contains tractors and farm equipment, and a quarter-mile trail following the orig- route for Gen. Robert E. Lee’s army near while the homestead features 19th-century inal Federal trenches. (910) 594-0789 or the end of the Civil War. After Union troops furnishings. Visitors can also travel through www.nchistoricsites.org/bentonvi stormed the fort’s 45-foot-tall earthworks in the replicated tobacco pack house, which a massive amphibious assault on January 15, includes a weighing and inspection station 19. Historic Fayetteville 1865, the Army of Northern lost used in tobacco auctions, as well as a smoke- First settled in 1739 by emigrants from the critical access to food and ammunition. house, kitchen, and barn. (919) 284-3431 Scottish Highlands this modern town of Later during World War II, Fort Fisher or www.tobaccofarmlifemuseum.org 210,000 still contains 19th-century mansions, served as an important anti-aircraft gunnery estates, and more than a dozen other acces- training center. Forty-five-minute guided 17. CSS Neuse State Historical Site sible historical points of interest. The stone tours of the 264-acre site begin in the visitor and Governor Caswell Memorial marker at Liberty Point downtown bears the center and lead past the earthworks over- Under Lt. Benjamin Loyall, this Confeder- names of the 55 patriots who signed an early looking the coast and over a traverse featur- ate ironclad patrolled the stretch of the document declaring their commitment to ing a pre-Civil-War 32-pound seacoast gun from Kinston to New Bern in freedom from Britain. Standing in the down- behind a reconstructed palisade fence. The 1864. Loyall ordered it scuttled in March town circle intersection of Hay, Person, museum contains exhibits on Civil-War-era 1865 as Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sher- Gillespie, and Green streets is the 1838 , blockade runners, World-War-II man marched toward the coast. A 30- Market House, formerly the city center of servicemen, and artifacts from the shipwreck minute guided tour features the excavated commerce and government, which features a of Modern Greece, an 1859 British iron remains of the hull and upper structure. A square arcade and cupola bell reminiscent of steamer that was attacked by both Union small museum on the grounds explores the the English town hall market. Fifteen and Confederate soldiers in 1862 off the political career of North Carolina’s first minutes outside of town sits the one-acre coast of Fort Fisher. (910) 458-5538 or governor, . (252) 522-2091 Averasboro Battlefield Complex, a museum www.nchistoricsites.org/fisher or www.nchistoricsites.org/neuse to a Civil War engagement in which 1,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died on 18. March 14, 1865. (910) 483-5311 or State Historic Site www.visitfayettevillenc.com For three days in March 1865, Confeder- ate Gen. Joseph Johnson’s army of 21,000 20. Museum of the Cape men battered Maj. Gen. William Sher- Fear Historical Complex 15. North Carolina Museum of History man’s 60,000-man force outside of Four This 14,000-square-foot museum, which This 55,000-square-foot museum explores Oaks, but failed to break the Union lines. features eight exhibitions on the history of North Carolina’s heritage, including Today the 130-acre park commemorates southeastern North Carolina, examines exhibits on the arrival of European the last full-scale Civil War battle fought in Paleo-Indians, 18th-century Scottish immi- colonists, the fight for independence from North Carolina with a 1,000-square-foot gration, the , and the Britain, the “War Between the States,” visitor center featuring battle maps and steamship industry on the . moonshine production, and modern-day muskets, the 1855 Harper House, which Artifacts include a 2,000-year-old Indian sports figures. 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basket used for rice cultiva- tion, and rifles manufactured at the local arsenal. A 45-minute guided tour of the adjacent 1897 Poe home leads through 15 rooms. Across the street from the museum sits the four- acre park containing the original limestone foundations of the Confederate Arsenal, which General Sherman’s troops razed in March 1865. (910) 486-1330 or www.museumofthecapefear.ncdcr.gov

21. Airborne and Special historic buildings, spread throughout the gardens, and take a 50-minute guided tour Operations Museum Beaux-Arts Old Post Historic District, and of the Museum of Early Southern Deco- This 59,000-square-foot facility docu- the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare rative Arts, which has 12 galleries of paint- ments the history of the Airborne from its Center and School, where military ings, textiles, furniture, and metalwork. beginnings in 1940 to the present day. personnel trained during the Cold War. (336) 721-7300 or www.oldsalem.org Exhibits include a replica of a burned-out (910) 396-6680 or www.bragg.army.mil French village in Normandy liberated by 24. Guilford Courthouse Airborne units in June 1944 and a National Military Park diorama depicting a Special Forces hide- On March 15, 1781, British general Lord site, used for reconnaissance during the Charles Cornwallis’s force of 1,900 men Persian Gulf War. Aircraft on display suffered 25 percent casualties on this site in include a Douglas C-47 Skytrain, Waco a pyrrhic victory over Maj. Gen. Nathanael CG-4A glider, and a UH-1 Huey helicop- 23. Old Salem Museums Greene and his 4,500-man army. Within ter from the Korean War. (910) 643-2766 and Gardens seven months, Cornwallis would surrender or www.asomf.org Moravians from the Czech Republic his weakened army to the Americans. The founded this town in 1766. Today, 80 of 226-acre park contains four miles of walk- 22. Fort Bragg Old Salem’s buildings have been restored, ing trails and an 8,000-square-foot visitor Established in 1918 as a field artillery base, including two schools, a fire engine house, center featuring exhibits and Revolution- Z

L this fort serves today as the world’s largest and shoemaker shop. The 100-acre ary War artifacts. A 2.5-mile driving tour A W

N airborne facility and home of the 82nd I outdoor museum features recreations of leads past the gravesites of Declaration of T R A Airborne Division, renowned for its daring daily 19th-century tasks, such as washing Independence signers John Penn and M Y

B drop behind enemy lines on D-Day. clothing, baking bread, and making furni- William Hooper. (336) 288-1776 or P A

M A 251-square-mile base contains 352 ture. Visitors can see fruit orchards, herb www.nps.gov/guco

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25. Blandwood Mansion known as the Regulators— three rooms with period furniture. The visi- This 1795 mansion, renovated attacked the royal at this tor center features artifacts from in 1846 for antebellum gover- field near Alamance Creek in the Bennett family and Civil War clothing nor , is an unsuccessful attempt to and weapons. (919) 383-4345 or the oldest Italianate building in obtain lower taxes and end www.nchistoricsites.org/bennett the . Docents lead corruption among sheriffs. 29. Duke Homestead 45-minute guided tours through Today the 40-acre site features J. B. Duke, the son of prominent Orange the farmhouse, law office, and a 2,240-square-foot visitor County tobacco farmer Washington Duke, kitchen. The two-acre grounds center with a 25-minute film built this modest frame house in 1852 on a feature a rose garden and a on the battle, as well as arti- 300-acre plot. After the war, Duke kitchen garden. (336) 272-5003 facts excavated from the battlefield, includ- established North Carolina’s first tobacco or www.blandwood.org ing a button and a powder horn. Nearby sits the John Allen factory, which soon evolved into the 26. International Civil Rights House belonging to the brother-in-law of American Tobacco Company. Visitors Center and Museum prominent Regulator Herman Husband, can take a 45-minute guided tour of the This 30,000-square-foot museum commem- which contains period furniture, cookware, family home, smokehouse, curing barn, pack orates the famous 1960 Greensboro lunch and a spinning wheel. (336) 227-4785 or house, and tobacco factories. (919) 477-5498 counter sit-ins during the civil rights move- www.nchistoricsites.org/alamance or www.nchistoricsites.org/duke ment. Located within the F. W. Woolworth building where the protests took place, the 28. State Historic Site museum features the original “whites only” On April 17, 1865, eight days after General lunch counter, where young black activists Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court demanded service, and 16 exhibits on racial House, Gen. Joseph Johnson and Gen. violence, Jim Crow laws, and the overall William T. Sherman first met beneath a 30. Wilkes Heritage Museum civil rights movement. (336) 274-9199 truce flag at this 1846 estate to discuss the This 20,000-square-foot 1902 Wilkes or www.sitinmovement.org largest troop surrender of the war, includ- County Courthouse houses a local county ing the and all remain- 27. history museum. Exhibits examine the ing Confederate forces in North Carolina, early settlement years, the American On May 16, 1771, 2,000 disgruntled North , , and . Carolina farmers—members of a group Revolution, NASCAR racing, and the A 30-minute guided tour showcases moonshine distilling process. Located on the two-acre grounds are the 1779 Robert Cleveland Home, a log cabin owned by the Revolutionary War captain, and the 1859 Old Wilkes Jail. (336) 667-3171 or www.wilkesheritagemuseum.org Visit Greensboro 31. Fort Dobbs State Historic Site When completed in 1756 during the French and Indian War, this oak-walled fort was the only fortified military headquarters on the Carolina frontier. White settlers used it successfully to defend against an attack on February 27, 1760, by Cherokee Indians incensed by numerous insults inflicted by their former British allies. The 32-acre park hosts frequent living history events and permanently features the excavated founda- tion of the original fort. The visitor center contains reproduction firearms, uniforms, Visit the Greensboro Historical Museum to view its magnificent weapons, and a scale model of the fort. collection of Confederate fi rearms, along with other Civil War artifacts, (704) 873-5882 or www.fortdobbs.org and paintings by Don Troiani. The exhibit stands apart from others by 32. Salisbury National Cemetery featuring the fi nest examples from every major Southern armory. Located and Confederate Prison in the cultural district of downtown. Admission, tours and parking are free. An estimated 5,000 Union soldiers lie buried in this 13-acre cemetery, once the site of a Confederate prison in which as many as 11,700 inmates died between December 1861 and November 1864. A 800.344.2282 10-mile audio driving tour begins at the visitgreensboronc.com Salisbury Visitors Center and travels past 12 NC Her Trav_Working:AH 3/30/11 5:28 PM Page 77

monuments, the guard master’s lodge, and gravestones of such notable figures as Buffalo Soldier Marshall Sharp. The North Carolina’s Crystal Coast newer 52-acre national cemetery annex, located three miles to the northwest, contains more than 4,000 graves of 21st-century veterans. (704) 636-2661 or www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/salisbury.asp 33. North Carolina Transportation Museum This 57-acre museum complex features a 37-bay Roundhouse, one of the largest ever built, and 25 restored locomotives. Highlights include an Atlantic Coast Line #1031, Duke Power Company #111, and Seaboard Air Line #544, as well as Discover a place where timeless beauty, coastal charm and rich history 20 additional rail cars. Visitors can watch run wild. Where free-roaming Spanish horses, pristine beaches and an airplane restoration in the 1905 repair friendly faces welcome you all year long. With so much to enjoy, you’ll shop and see antique automobiles in the leave life as you know it behind – on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast. flue shop warehouse. (704) 636-2889 or www.nctrans.org 34. North Carolina Aviation Museum This 20,000-square-foot museum, which lies within two hangars at the Asheboro 800.786.6962 Municipal Airport, contains eight oper- crystalcoastnc.org able military aircraft, including a Swiss P-3 from the late 1950s, a Cessna L-19 “Bird Dog” used in the Vietnam and Korean wars, and a 1943 Piper J-3 “Flit- fire,” the last plane ever flown by Orville Wright. Visitors can also see military uniforms and B-25 and Douglas engines. (336) 625-0170 or www.ncairmuseum.org Salisbury-Rowan County

35. Levine Museum of the New South This 40,000-square-foot museum focuses on post-Civil War history with exhibits on the industrialization of agriculture and growth of the railroad, Jim Crow segregation, and modern immigration. Interactive displays enable visitors to sit inside a sharecropper’s cabin, run their hands through seed cotton, and wander through shops along a recreated 1940s Main Street. (704) 333-1887 or Find your authentic North Carolina Civil War experience in www.museumofthenewsouth.org Salisbury-Rowan County. Explore three NC Civil War Trail sites, 36. the Salisbury Confederate Prison site, 11 historic districts and over 20 Twelve-year-old Conrad Reed, the son of a antique shops. Stay and research your family history. Live the story of Hessian deserter-turned-farmer, discovered American history at its fi nest – an unforgettable adventure awaits you. a 17-pound gold nugget on this site in 1799. The placer creek gold mine that soon devel- oped here was the first of its kind in the New World. The visitor center contains exhibits 800.332.2343 on the formation of gold, the mining visitsalisburync.com process, and the metal’s many historic uses. 12 NC Her Trav_Working:AH 3/31/11 11:38 AM Page 78

Visitors can pan for gold during the summer 1928 city hall, and the 1929 S&W Cafete- traditional craft months and hike a 1.5-mile nature trail. ria. Visitors can take the self-guided 1.7-mile movement and (704) 721-4653 or www.reedmine.com Urban Trail loop that winds through the r i c h m u s i c a l city. www.exploreasheville.com heritage. Historic 37. sites include Fort This large ceremonial mound was the 39. Biltmore D e f i a n c e i n centerpiece of a large religious and polit- George Vanderbilt II, grandson of indus- Lenoir, home to ical center built by the Pee Dee people trial tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, modeled Re v o l u t i o n - along the Little River during the 11th this 250-room summer estate after the ary War Gen. century. Visitors can see the ceremonial ornate châteaux of France’s Loire Valley. William Lenoir; center, temple mound, and mortuary. The Biltmore opened in 1895, its grand the Basilica of The adjacent visitor center displays Pee mansion surrounded by 125,000-acres of Saint Lawrence Dee artifacts, including spear and arrow- gardens and landscapes engineered by in Asheville, built by famous architect head points, soap stone bowls, game Frederick Law Olmstead, who designed Raphael Guastavino; the Historic Johnson pieces, and jewelry. (910) 439-6802 or New York City’s Central Park. Today Farm in Hendersonville, a 19th-century www.nchistoricsites.org/town 8,000-acres remain. Visitors can tour the tobacco farm; and the Vance Birthplace in mansion, walk the gardens, ride 80 miles of Weaverville, home to North Carolina politi- horse trails, shop in a complex of eateries cian . (828) 298-5330 and stores, and stay in a country inn. The or www.blueridgeheritage.com Antler Hill Village features exhibits on farming and the Vanderbilt family. (800) 41. Western North Carolina Air Museum 38. Historic Asheville 411-3812 or www.biltmore.com This 10,000-square-foot museum, contained During his search for gold and El Dorado, within a hanger across from Hendersonville Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto visited 40. Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Airport, features 13 aircraft including a 1945 this city in 1540 when it belonged to the This 11,000-square-mile heritage region in Stearman N2S-4, a 1949 Ercoupe 415CD, Cherokee Indians. Europeans began perma- the Great Smoky Mountains, first populated and a 1936 Piper J-2. Displays also include nently settling here in 1784. The downtown by the Cherokee Indians and later by jet engines, propellers, flight manuals, and Pack Square is known for its Art Deco build- Scotch-Irish immigrants, played a significant model airplanes. (828) 698-2482 or ings, which include the 1913 Grove Park role in North Carolina’s history. It was here www.wncairmuseum.com Inn, which hosted eight U.S. presidents, the that the mountain folk originated their 42. Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site Author of the Rootabaga Stories and a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln, Carl Sandburg lived in this 1838 Greek-Revival mountain home between AMERICAN 1945 and 1967. Visitors can take a 30-minute guided tour of the home he HERITAGE named “Connemara” and see the family’s original furnishings and personal items, including their 10,000-book library. The HERITAGE TRAVELER 264-acre site also contains vegetable and flower gardens, five miles of walking trails, and the goat farm, once maintained by Sandburg’s wife, Lilian. (828) 693-4178 or www.nps.gov/carl

43. Museum of the Cherokee Indian This 30,000-square-foot museum of the Cherokee Nation examines more than 11,000 years of Indian life in North Carolina, starting from the Paleo-Indian For more information on period and progressing through the Archaic and Mississippian cultures, the North Carolina travel sites visit establishment of trade routes, and their www.AmericanHeritage.com/NC disastrous clashes with European-American civilization. Digital displays and holograms or scan this icon with depict various aspects of tribal life, includ- ing cooking, while artwork details impor- your smartphone. tant events, such as the Trail of Tears. (828) 497-3481 or www.cherokeemuseum.org