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Guide to Historic Sites in North Carolina 12 NC Her Trav_Working:AH 4/2/11 8:27 AM Page 71 AMERICAN HERITAGE TRAVELER HERITAGE Guide to Historic Sites in North Carolina 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 James Iredell, 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 www.nchistoricsites.org/iredell W American colony to call for independence and a reproduction wind tunnel. Visitors E H T T from Britain. Five different guided tours can also see the reconstructed Wright A M Y of the 40-acre historic district enable visi- 4. Somerset Place 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 19th-century buildings, including taverns, purchased by Josiah Collins in 1774 E C 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 www.nchistoricsites.org/halifax the modern, 31-acre historic property 512-acre site features a 6,000-square-foot M T L I B begin in the visitor center, the site of a visitor center with exhibits that explore life in E H T ; 2. Historic Hope Plantation former boarding school, and pass the colony, why the colonists’ disappeared, ) T F E The circa-1803 Federal-and-Georgian style through eight original 19th-century and the area’s participation in the Civil L P O T mansion, once owned by Gov. David Stone, War. Within walking distance lie the ( E G 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 local planter William King, are Gardens, a 10-acre park with elabo- A S D the main features of this 45-acre rate formal gardens. (252) 473-5772 L O ; ) historic site. Ninety-minute guided or www.nps.gov/fora G A L F tours of both homes pass through ( M O 16 period-furnished rooms, such 7. Roanoke Island Festival Park C . O T as the library, bedrooms, and This 27-acre park contains four O H P K 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. Tryon Palace Historic Sites woodworking, blacksmithing, and other Royal British Governor 11. Fort Macon State Park activities; the Adventure Museum, which William Tryon 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 Bonner house, which was built by pioneer center and cover six buildings—three of railroad history, features route maps, e e Lots of websites let you read about American History. urs shows you where to drive so you can experience it yourself. Market House Sandford House Heritage Square Civil WarTrail Site # 2 Gaelic Beginnings Trail Site # 12 The Revolutionary 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. Tobacco 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.
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