Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Tour/Site Tour

EDUCATION PACKET

Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State Historic Site 911 Reems Creek Rd. Weaverville, 28787 (828) 645-6706 Fax (828) 645-0936 [email protected] Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 2 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 57

Department of Cultural Resources

The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources was formed in Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace 1971 to serve North Carolina’s citizens State Historic Site across the state in an outreach to 911 Reems Creek Rd. broaden minds and spirits, preserve Weaverville, North Carolina 28787 history and culture, and to recognize (828) 645-6706 and promote our cultural resources as an essential element of North Carolina’s economic and social well-being. It was the first state organization in the nation to include all agencies for arts and culture Welcome: under one umbrella.

Thank you for your interest in the Zebulon B. Cultural Resources serves more than 19 million people annually through three major areas: The Arts, The State Library of North Carolina and Archives and His- Vance Birthplace State Historic Site. The site preserves tory. the birthplace of North Carolina’s Civil War Governor, and The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources includes the State Library, the State Archives, 27 Historic Sites, 7 History Muse- interprets 18 th and 19 th century history through the lives ums, Historical Publications, Archaeology, Genealogy, Historic Preser- vation, the North Carolina Symphony, the North Carolina Arts Council, of Zebulon B. Vance and his family for the education of and the North Carolina Museum of Art. present and future generations. We hope this educational The department is comprised of the Office of Archives and History and the Office of Arts and Libraries. Through these offices, the department packet will enhance your understanding of this site, the addresses a wide range of interests and provides assistance to North Carolina’s residents and visitors to the state. Vance family, and life in the backcountry of North Caro- http://www.ncculture.com/ for more information Friends of the Vance BirthplaceBirthplace————TheThe mission of the Vance lina. Birthplace Support Associates is to provide assistance for the educational and interpretive programs offered by the This packet may be used by children of various Zebulon B. Vance Birthplace State Historic Site. Primary assistance for programming offered will be from funds ages, although it was compiled by elementary school gathered by the associates through donations, funding raising, and grants. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 56 Page 3

Price List as of January 2011

Books: TAR HEEL JR. HISTORIANS All items $1.25 are also 5 for $5.$5. teachers. We encourage you to adapt the materials to Boy Soldiers $8.00 Balls $1.25

Blue Ridge Parkway $9.95 Bonnets $5.00 your specific classroom requirements. Answers to the

Dry Ridge $15.00 Button Puzzle $1.25 worksheets are provided at the end of this packet. You Fear in NC $29.95 Candles $1.25/each

First Ladies $28.00 Church Babies $3.00 may wish to consider printing this packet in black and

Medicine of the Civil War $ .25 Cup & Ball $1.25 white to reduce ink expenses as there is a number of Mountain Masters $18.00 Drop Spindle $3.50

The Scattered Nation $6.00 Fixed Heddle Loom $1.25 color pictures included. If you have any questions please

Vance Biography $49.00 Frogs $1.25 contact us at the phone number listed above or by e-mail Vance Letters Vol. I $15.00 Heart Puzzle $1.25 at [email protected]. We look forward to your Vance Letters Vol. II $35.00 Hear Pin Cushion $1.25

Souvenirs: Mountain YoYo’s $1.25 visit.

Currency $2.00 Magnets $ .50

Flags $2.00 Ox & yoke Puzzle $1.25

Patches $2.50 Ring Knitters $2.25 Tammy Walsh, Historic Interpreter I

Post Cards $ .25 Purse /Reticule $1.25 Vance Birthplace State Historic Site Scenic Note Cards (snow) $6.00 Sachet Rabbits $1.25 [email protected] Quill Pens $2.00 Spinning Buttons $ .50 Facebook: Vance Birthplace Prints $5.00 Spool Knitters $2.25

Vance Note Cards (ink) $7.50 Thanatropes $1.25

Walnut Ink $1.25 Page 4 Page 55

Suggested Resources

Films Gift Shop

Foxfire (8-12) Going to Cades Cove (7-12) Children of the Colonial Frontier (4-6) Colonial Children (1-6) Colonial Life in the South (5-8) A Pioneer Journey Across the Appalachians (5-12) Appalachian Woodcrafters (4-12) Hansel and Gretel – Appalachian Style (K-12)

Books

American Girl Series of Books the Kirsten and Felicity Series. Pleasant Com pany. 1991—Present Camp, Cordelia . Governor Vance: A Life for Young People . Raleigh, NC: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1980. Caney, Steven. Steven Caney’s Kid’s America . New York: Workman Pub., 1978. Chase, Richard. Singing Games and Playparty Games . New York: Dover Publications, 1967. Coates, Albert. Three North Carolinians who have stood up to be counted for the Bill of Rights: Sam Spencer 1760’s, Zebulon Baird Vance 1860’s and 1960’s and 1970’s. 1973 Cooper, Richard. Zeb Vance: Leader in War and Peace 1985 Dowd, Clement. Life of Zebulon B. Vance . Charlotte, NC: Observer Printing And Publishing House, 1897. McKinney, Gordon B. Zeb Vance: North Carolina’s Civil War Governor and Gilded Age Political Leader . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Mobely, Joe A. War Governor of the South: North Carolina’s Zeb Vance in the Confederacy (new Perspectives on the History of the South. 2005 Szittya, Ruth. Man to Match the Mountains: The Childhood of Zebulon B. Vance . Asheville, NC: Hexagon Co., 1980. Tucker, Glenn. Zeb Vance: Champion of Personal Freedom . Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965. Tunis, Edward. Frontier Living . Cleveland: World Publication Co., 1961. During your visit you and your students are invited to check out the Wigginton, Eliot, et al., ed. Foxfire . 12 Vols. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books Gift Shop located in the Visitor Center. 1972-2004. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House in the Big Woods . New York: HarperCollins, 1987. Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie . New York: HarperCollins, Whether or not your class visits the gift shop is entirely up to the indi- 1953. Yates, Richard E. The Confederacy and Zeb Vance . Tuscaloosa, AL: vidual teacher; however the proceeds from the gift shop do go to sup- Confederate Pub. Co., 1958. port the Vance Birthplace.

All Items include Tax. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 54 Page 5 Web Sites Vocabulary continued Zebulon Baird Vance

www.vancebirthplace.nchistoricsites.org backcountry – a term of the 1700s used to refer to the area west of the fall line. The fall line divides the Coastal Plain from the Piedmont. http://www.heritagewnc.org/WNC_biography/vance_gov_zebulon_baird.htm It runs in an irregular north/south direction west of Wilson in Wilson County and east of Sanford in Lee County. http://www.heritagewnc.org/WNC_biography/default_biography.htm migrate – to move from one place and settle in another. http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/nc/bio/public/vance.htm oral history – the spoken recollections of people about historical http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/31328619/Zeb- Vance-North--Civil-War-Governor-and-Gilded-Age-Political-Leader events in which they participated or a time period in which they lived.

Oral histories are usually preserved on tape. http://thomaslegion.net/governor_zeb_vance.html preserve – to keep, save or protect from change. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-civilwar/5461 writ of habeas corpus – a written order requiring that prisoners be http://docsouth.unc.edu/browse/bios/pn0001702_bio.html brought before a judge or into court or decide whether they are being held lawfully. This is to protect against unjust imprisonment. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=V000021

http://treasuresofnorthcarolinamasonry.org/017-zebulon.html

Vance Speeches

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/vance_scattered_nations/ default_vance_scattered.htm

Oral Histories

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/oralhistory/SHRC/gaston_dorothy.pdf

Other

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/sondley_f_a/ sondley_chapter_06.htm

www.learnnc.org (Search for themed lesson plans and informational sites)

http://www.nchistoricsites.org/vance/main.htm

http://www.phigam.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=1193

http://www.mountainx.com/news/2003/0507vance.php

http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2010/05/27/tom-dula-and-zeb-vance/ Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 6 Page 53 Legacy There are several monuments dedicated to Vance: Vocabulary List

• An obelisk dedicated to Vance in Pack Square, Asheville archaeology – the systematic recovery and study of material evidence • A statue on the south grounds of the North Carolina State Capitol remaining from past human life and culture, such as graves, build- in Raleigh ings, tools and pottery. • A bronze statue in the Collection in Wash- ington, D.C. architecture – the art and science of designing and erecting buildings; a style and method of design and construction. • A small monument located where his post-war home once stood (1865–1894), at Sixth and College Street, in Charlotte artifact – anything made by human skill, especially a tool or a weapon • One of the administrative buildings at the University of North that is located in a museum. Carolina at Chapel Hill is named Vance Hall in his honor. • A portrait of Vance hangs behind the President's chair of The Dia- history – a narrative of events or a story; a chronological record of events of the life or development of a people or an institution, often lectic and Philanthropic Societies of the University of North Caro- including an explanation or commentary on those events; the brand lina at Chapel Hill. knowledge that records and analyzes past events. • His birthplace is a state historic site in Weaverville [6] . Several locations and schools in North Carolina bear Vance's name: interpretation – the process or result of interpreting or supplying an explanation; a description of the meaning of a work of art, an activity, • The town of Zebulon , in Wake County or an object as presented by an example or performance.

The town of Vanceboro, North Carolina • preservation – caring for a building’s appearance with proper mainte- • Vance County on the North Carolina - Virginia border nance and repairs. • Zebulon B. Vance High School in Charlotte • Zeb Vance Elementary School in Kittrell restoration – to return a building to a past appearance by making changes and by repairing and replacing missing features. • Vance Masonic Lodge A.F.&A.M. #293 in Weaverville In World War II the liberty ship SS Zebulon B. Vance was Confederate – a person who lived in, supported, or fought for Confed- named in his honor. eracy during the Civil War.

heirloom variety – old, often nearly extinct types of vegetables, fruits, or flowers grown for historical, agricultural, or preservation reasons. Historic farms and houses often grow heirloom varieties of plants to 18. Homespun cloth: cotton alternative accurately show how the garden or farm looked in th e past.

interpreter – a person who explains a historic site.

Union – the states that supported the federal government of the United States during the civil war.

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Zebulon Baird Vance Zebulon Baird Vance

Across 43rd Governor of North Carolina 1.Tool for hewing logs InInIn office January 1, 1877 – February 5, 1879 4. Plant used for making cloth 6. Pulled by oxen to carry heavy loads Preceded bybyby Curtis Hooks Brogden 8. Place to get water Succeeded bybyby Thomas Jordan Jarvis 10.First county located entirely in mountains 13.Bed stored underneath full beds 14.Used to make butter 37th Governor of North Carolina 17.Baby’s bed InInIn office 19.Lady’s head cover September 8, 1862 – May 29, 1865 21.Stone used with steel to light fire Preceded bybyby 22.“Gentleman’s” fight with pistols Succeeded bybyby 23.Where children sat at dinner

25.Used to connect oxen 26. Another name for 24 down United States Senator from North Carolina Down InInIn office 1. Tool for cutting down trees 1879 – 1894 2. Used in making medicine Preceded bybyby Augustus S. Merrimon 3. Food grown for humans and animals Succeeded bybyby Thomas Jordan Jarvis 5. Used for weaving cloth 7. Used to build cabins 8. Name given to early European immigrant May 13, 1830(1830-05-13) Born 9. Used to remove wrinkles from clothes Weaverville, North Carolina 11. People here before Europeans 12. Early metal for utensils, replaced by glass April 14, 1894 (aged 63) Died 15. Civil War governor of North Carolina North Carolina 16. Homemade light made from wax and fat 18. Homespun cloth: cotton alternative Political party Democratic 20. Early nineteenth century suitcase Harriette Vance d1878 24. Common farm animal used by settlers Spouse(s) Francis Steele Martin 4 sons, David, Zeb, Jr., Thomas & Children Charles Noel and one Step Son Harry Martin. Profession lawyer , colonel , politician Page 8 Page 51

Grounds Layout

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Vance House 19 20 21

The homestead, a large two-story saddlebag style log

cabin structure is made of hewn yellow pine logs, and 22 23 24 has been reconstructed around the original chimney with its two enormous fireplaces. The furnishings and

household items on display are representative of the 25 26 period from 1790 to 1830 and include a few pieces original to the home. Clustered about the grounds are six log outbuildings: the corn crib, springhouse, smokehouse, loom house, slave cabin, and tool shed. Nearby, the visitor center houses exhibits portraying the life of Vance. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 50 Page 9

Grounds Layout continued p. 25 Farm Tools Word Search: W O L P E K Z A N S T V S E B O R

S H A I N M A L L E T F Q M C E A

J K E W V U X S R M T N E A G X K

M M O A D D L M V E E S T U R Q E

G A B D T R A V E L E R A L U I S

L O B R I C K M O L D M S T R U H

N W X A Z Q R G B E S H E H J X A Spring House P O Q V R U C A O B J K L N S E V

Z F P Q Z R B O D R A W K N I F E

C Z V O U W E W N L Z B A C D E H The spring house has been reconstructed over A N V I L F G L K L E G D E W U O the spring that the Vances used while living here.

L X Y Z E G O R N E Z P Q R D V R The water from the spring was used by the family for cooking, drinking, and cleaning. The large I O C M U A D Z E B X H E E Q T S cast iron pots near the spring house were used to P E V F Q B F N U T Z X U V H O E wash laundry. Laundry was done by beating the

E O R F Z D A Z Z T U R B G D A C dirt from the clothes on a battling bench with a battling stick. Water would be carried to the R F S J O L F M L S M O K N E Y E house in wooden buckets using a yoke. The pipe S C O R P Z X E F I N K K C O L B is used to direct the flow of the spring into the spring house where the water flows through a trough. Into this trough crocks of milk, butter, cheese, berries and vegetables would be placed so that the cold water would keep those items cool. This is the 200 year old version of your modern refrigerator. Page 10 Page 49

Answers

p. 4 Map MatchMatch: 1. (4); 2. (11); 3. (1); 4. (5); 5. (8); 6. (9); 7. (10); 8. (7); 9. (6); 10. (2); 11. (3); Confederate StatesStates of America 1. Texas; 2. Arkansas; 3. Louisiana; 4. Mississippi; 5. Alabama; 6. Geor- gia; 7. Florida; 8. South Carolina; 9. North Carolina; 10. Virginia; 11.

p. 12 Crossword Puzzle: Across: 1. adze; 4. flax; 6. sled; 8. spring; 10. Buncombe; 13. trundle; 14. churn; 17. cradle; 19. bonnet; 21. flint; 22. duel; 23. Smoke House bench; 25. yoke; 26. hog; Down: 1. ax; 2. herb; 3. corn; 5. loom; 7. logs; 8. settler; 9. iron; 11. Cherokee; 12. pewter; 15. Zebulon; 16. candle; 18. linen; 20. trunk; 24. hog Behind the loom house is the smoke house. This building has puncheon floors in it. Puncheon floor- p. 13 Scrambled Words: 1. Revolutionary; 2. Morganton, settle; 3. ing is made up of logs that are split and then colonel, militia; smoothed with an adze. inside the building are the 4. survey, North, Tennessee; 5. clerk; 6. Reems Creek; 7. hundred; 8. captain; 9. father, governor; 10. Zebulon, May; 11. mischievous; 12. meat benches (also called salt benches) upon colonel, regiment; 13. elected, governor; 14. Senate which meat is laid for salting. Salting of the meat was done every day for six weeks before the meat p. 14 Matching: 10, 7, 12, 15, 20, 11, 17, 19, 16, 5, 6, 14, 18, 1, 9, was smoked. Also, in the corner there is a large 4, 8, 2, 3, 13 wooden sausage stuffer (also called a sausage press). Notice where the salt has penetrated the p. 15 What is It?: 1. shuttle; 2. drawknife; 3. Dutch oven; 4. yoke; 5. outside of some of the logs and provided the farm wash pot; 6. bed key

animals with a salt lick. p. 22 Matching: yoke, chamber pot, broad ax, boot jack, niddy- noddy, spinning wheel

p. 23 Settler Farm Animals: (top-to-bottom) wool, work, eggs, milk, meat

knife that hooks into a block of wood and shaves wood. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 48 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 11 Main Heading Farm Tools Word Search

W O L P E K Z A N S T V S E B O R

S H A I N M A L L E T F Q M C E A

J K E W V U X S R M T N E A G X K

M M O A D D L M V E E S T U R Q E

G A B D T R A V E L E R A L U I S

L O B R I C K M O L D M S T R U H Loom House

N W X A Z Q R G B E S H E H J X A

P O Q V R U C A O B J K L N S E V This building contains items which were used in

Z F P Q Z R B O D R A W K N I F E the process of clothing production. The large spin- ning wheel, or walking wheel, the yarn reel, or wea- C Z V O U W E W N L Z B A C D E H sel belonged to the Vance’s. On the wall behind A N V I L F G L K L E G D E W U O the yarn reel are the warping bars, which were

L X Y Z E G O R N E Z P Q R D V R used to measure the appropriate amount of warp, or thread for a specific projects on the loom. The I O C M U A D Z E B X H E E Q T S loom was used to weave much of the cloth used by P E V F Q B F N U T Z X U V H O E the family. The loom came to the site from Pearl

E O R F Z D A Z Z T U R B G D A C Weaver, who bought the loom in 1917 from UNC- Chapel Hill. Before that the loom was used in the R F S J O L F M L S M O K N E Y E Watauga region of the state where it was made S C O R P Z X E F I N K K C O L B around 200 years ago.

MALLET—hammer-like tool WEDGE—tool used to split wood AX—tool for cutting trees FROE—tool used to split shingles Other items in the loom house include the wool ADZE—tool for smoothing logs HOE—used to loosen soil PLOW—used to turn soil BARREL—container used for storage cards, flax hackles, a small spinning wheel, the ANVIL—tool on which metal is shaped CALIPERS—measuring instrument swift, and table loom. BRICK MOLD—used to shape bricks DRAWKNIFE—tool for shaving wood AUGER—tool to drill holes RAKE—tool to gather grass SHAVE HORSE—bench-like vise to hold wood while shaving it back WHEAT CRADLE—tool used to harvest wheat MAUL—heavy wooden hammer used to split wood PLANE—tool to smooth or shape a wood surface TRAVELER—instrument to measure distance SCORP—tool to scrape and hollow out wood BLOCK KNIFE— knife that hooks into a block of wood and shaves wood. Page 12 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 47

Settler Farm Animals

Why did settlers need these animals? Pick a word to match the animal.

1. Sheep______

Tool Shed 2. Oxen______

The tool house was originally moved here from the Johanna Fox property located in the community of 3. Chickens______Juniper. Originally this building was designed to be a smoke house. Stored in the tool house is a hand- made carpenter’s bench with wooden vises. Also, in the building are many types of handmade tools 4. Cows______such as: the broad adz, used for hewing logs; a froe for splitting shingles; and a shove horse, which was used along with the draw knife for shaping wood. Other tools stored in the building are the cooper’s 5. Pigs______adze, scorps, brick molds, hay racks, augers, cali- pers, a plow and a bow saw.

WORDS:

milk, wool, eggs, work, meat Page 46 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 13

Matching

Draw a line to connect the picture to the correct name.

YOKE

BROAD AX Corn Crib

The corn crib was used for storing corn. This building like the smoke house, has CHAMBER POT puncheon boards in it’s floor. The shed attached to the corn crib was used as a storage place for a wagon or buggy. The

corn crib and the smoke house were moved here from the community of Bee SPINNING WHEEL Log. The community of Bee Log is in Yancy County just south of Burnsville, NC.

NIDDY NODDY

BOOT JACK Page 14 Page 45

Grounds Layout continued In the House

The chamber pot served as an indoor bathroom. During the day people would use an outhouse, but during the night they used chamber pots. There was no indoor plumbing at this time.

Slave Quarters

In 1811, David Vance Sr. had 16 slaves and they were thought to have lived in 3 cabins much like this one. We believe that they were originally lo- cated where the White Church is across the street. This cabin was moved here from Swannanoa and originally stood on the farm of Robert Patton, one of the first settlers to settle in the area. The cabin The flat iron was served as the first home for his family and later be- placed by the fire- came his slave cabin. Although the cabin is fur- place to heat. When nished on a smaller scale than the Vance house, it was hot it was there are two items in this cabin that are not in the used to Vance’s home. One is the grease gourd that could iron clothes. People be used to store animal grease, and the other is the used many irons large laundry basket. while ironing so that as an iron cooled it could be replaced by a hot one. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 44 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 15

Weaving Grounds Layout continued

Picnic Shelter

A hackle was used to help remove undesirable parts of the flax plant to allow the remaining fibers to be sepa- Room to Run & Play rated by length and quality. Once the flax was pulled the fibers could be spun into linen thread and woven into fab- ric.

This type of spinning wheel was an improvement on the large wheeled “Walking wheel” type of spinner as you can spin yarn sitting down on this type of ma- chine.

Visitors Center Page 16 Page 43

Map Match Spinning

small bed that

The spinning wheel was used to make the thread needed for weaving. This type of wheel is called a walking wheel and belonged to the Vance family. It is operated using the 1. Statesville 4. Reems Creek 8. Durham 2. Malvern Hills 5. Raleigh 9. Charlotte wheel boy to spin the wheel. 3. Jonesboro 6. Chapel Hill 10. willimgton 7. New Bern 11. Asheville

______1. Where Zebulon B. Vance was born ______2. Where Vance was elected to his first public office ______3. Where Vance was arrested after the war ______4. Where the state capitol is located Wheel Boy ______5. General J.E. Johnston surrendered troops to General Sherman here ______6. Where Vance lived with his family and practiced law after being paroled from prison ______7. Blockade runners came into this port ______8. Where Vance commanded his first battle in the Civil War ______9. Where Vance went to college to study law ______10. Where Vance was when he was elected governor the first time ______11. Where Vance attended school at age 13 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 42 Page 17

A trundle bed is a small bed that slides under an- 10 other bed. This 9 11 allowed for more 8 floor space during 2 6 the day. This bed 4 5 was used by 3 1 young 7 children and guests.

List the states numbered on this map. These states made up the______. 1. ______2. ______3. ______4. ______5. ______6. ______7. ______8. ______9. ______10.______11.______Page 18 Page 41

Zebulon Baird Vance: From Log House to State House Sleeping

Zeb Vance was born on May 13, 1830, at Reems Creek in Buncombe

County, North Carolina. This was where his grandfather, David Vance,

Sr., had built the family’s pioneer home in the early 1790’s.

At the age of six Zeb entered public school for the first time. The school was held in a small, one-room log building. Since it was located ten miles away from home, Zeb and his older brother Robert boarded with friends who lived near the school. The cradle was the baby’s first bed. This is a “hooded” When Zeb was about four years old his family moved to Lap- cradle. The partial roof helped to keep out cold drafts. There is also a hole in the top of the cradle where the land (modern Marshall). Zeb entered Washington College in Jones- child care provider could attach a rope and be able to be in bed or across the room and be able to rock the baby. boro, Tennessee when he was thirteen years old. Less than a year

after he started school at Jones-

boro, his father died. Zeb had to

quit school and return to Lapland.

He and Robert started working so that their mother would have money to support the family. By 1850

Mira Vance had moved her family into Asheville for better educational opportunities for the children.

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In 1851, with borrowed money, Zeb entered the University of North

A slate board was used Carolina at Chapel Hill. There he studied law for one year. After earn- to teach children writing ing a license to practice law, Zeb returned to Asheville . and numbers. It serves as a small chalkboard. Zebulon B. Vance was elected Solicitor of Buncombe County

(prosecuting attorney) in 1852, his first public office. Two years later Vance was elected to the lower house of the state legislature, known

then as the House of Commons.

Following an unsuccessful run for a seat in the state senate in 1856, Vance was elected to fill the unexpired state congressional

term of Thomas Clingman. Zeb was reelected to this office in 1858 Pictured below is a slate pencil used to write on the slate board. and 1860, holding it until the beginning of the Civil War. Before the start of the Civil war, Vance had been against the

secession of the southern states. Once war broke out in South Caro-

lina, however, he

changed his mind. When

President Lincoln called

for volunteers from North

Carolina to fight against

South Carolina, Vance asked for volunteers to fight for South Carolina. Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 20 Page 39

Writing

On May 3, 1861, he left Asheville as captain of a group of volunteers A feather pen, or quill, was used for writing. Ink could be bought known as “The Rough and Ready Guard.” or made at home from different Later in the year Vance was promoted to colonel of the 26 th things, such as berries or wal- nuts. North Carolina Regiment. New Bern was his first place of command The quill pictured here stands in a pewter inkwell. during a battle; his last was at Malvern Hill, Virginia (1862). While on active military service Vance was elected governor of North Carolina, a position he was to hold until the end of the war.

Governor Vance arranged for North Carolina to receive supplies from England.

These supplies were brought to Wilmington

by ships called blockade runners. The block- A hornbook was a wooden pad- ade runners entered the port by night. That dle with a piece of paper glued to it. Paper was expensive, so it was way they would not be easily seen by federal protected by a thin shield of cow’s horn that you could see through. warships trying to stop supplies from reaching North Carolina. Never- The paper usually had the alpha- theless, the South was losing the war. bet on it as well as religious verse. Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered his army to General William T. Sherman at the Bennett farm near Durham in April 1865. This marked the end of the war and defeat for North

Carolina.

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Lighting

By May Vance had fled Raleigh for the relative safety of Statesville,

where his family had been living during the war. On his thirty-fifth birthday, Vance was arrested by federal soldiers and taken to Wash-

ington, DC. There he was imprisoned in the old Capitol Prison for his The tin lantern held a can- dle when you leadership role in the Civil War. Within six weeks he was paroled. went outside. Holes were After his release from prison, Vance moved his family to Char- punched through the tin from the inside out. lotte. There he practiced law until 1876, when he was again elected This kept the candle from being blown out by the governor of North Carolina. He became a United States Senator in wind. 1879 and thus served North Caro-

lina until his death in 1894. Sena-

tor Vance’s body was brought by

train to Asheville and buried in Riv-

Candles were made at erside Cemetery. the home site. Wicks were dipped in melted wax, or the wax was poured into a tin candle mold. This was one was one way to pro- vide light in the house.

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Shuttle

Statesville Home

A wooden device called a shuttle was wrapped with the thread or the yarn. It was pushed between the warp threads or yarn in the cloth to produce the weft of the cloth on the weaving loom. The one pictured holds strips of cloth that are sewn together to make rag rugs. Pic- tured Below is the warping board and the Nitty Noddy. The warp bars measured the warp threads for the loom and the Niddy Noddy was used to transfer the warp strings onto the loom without knotting. Charlotte Home Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 36 Page 23 David Vance the Backcountry Statesman Carding

David Vance, Sr. was born in Virginia in 1745. The eldest of

five boys, he came to North Carolina shortly before the Revolutionary

War and settled along the Catawba River in a part of Rowan County

that later became Burke County.

David Vance, Sr. and Priscilla Brank were married in Rowan

County on September 21, 1775. Priscilla Brank was the twenty-two

year old daughter of German immigrants. At that time David was a

school teacher and land surveyor. Then the American Revolution be-

gan. Choosing the cause of the colonies he entered the army in 1775 Cleaned wool as well as dirty wool is placed between these cards. The cards are pulled back and forth over the and was commissioned an ensign in the Second Regiment of the wool. This is the first step used to get wool yarn to make North Carolina Continental Line. Later he was promoted to lieutenant cloth. It allows the carder to pull debris like hay and straw out of the wool. You need for all the fibers of the coat to and served under George Washington at Brandywine, Germantown, be in the same direction before you can begin to spin. If the wool is not properly carded it will not allow the wool to and Monmouth. Vance spent the winter of 1777-1778 at Valley draft (pull) correctly. It will make it impossible to lengthen Forge, where so many of the soldiers either froze or starved to death. the string. In 1778, after completing his term of service with the Continental

Army, Vance returned to North Carolina where he was constantly en-

gaged in partisan warfare as a captain in the Buncombe militia. The

climax of his military service came at the battle of King’s Mountain

where he commanded a company of men. . Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 24 Page 35 David Vance the Backcountry Statesman

Continued Cooking

Prior to his death in 1813, the elder Vance left a narrative of his experiences at King’s Mountain that was later used by historian

Lyman C. Draper.

David Vance represented Burke County in the North Carolina

General Assembly in 1786, 1790, and 1791. Some time in the mid- to-late 1780’s David Vance moved his family from the Morganton area across the Blue Ridge Mountains to Reems Creek in what was later to become Buncombe County, a county he helped to create while in the 1790-91 General Assembly. David Vance and William David- son pushed forward a bill to create Buncombe County. In 1792, The fireplace was one of the most important places in the

David was elected the first clerk of Buncombe County court, a position house. It was a source of heat and light, as well as a place to he held until his death on January 12, 1813. cook the food.

In 1795 David Vance purchased a farm from William Devers (today it In the lower left corner of the photograph is a Dutch oven . It is the nucleus of Zebulon B Vance Historic Site.) David walked with was used to bake bread, cakes, and pies. his wife and several small children across the mountains to settle in The iron pot is held by a crane which swings out so cooks

Reems Creek Valley, three other families also made the journey. may stay a safe distance from the fire while cooking.

David acquired 898 acres of land on Reems Creek and built a two- At the top of the fireplace hangs a trammel which holds a pot story, five-room log house, so large as to be considered a mansion at for cooking. the time. He and his wife Priscilla reared eight children in this home. The andirons in the center hold the wood for the fire.

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What is It? Continued

1. This piece was used with the loom.

______

2. This is one of the tools found in the tool house. It was used for woodworking.

______

3. This is found in the kitchen fireplace. It was used for baking bread.

______

4. This device keeps work animals together In 1796, along with Robert Henry, Joseph McDowell, Mussedine Mat- while pulling farm equipment, carts, or wagons. thews, and several others, Vance surveyed the North Carolina- ______Tennessee state line. He was colonel of the Buncombe County mili-

tia, the local protection force for settlers in the area. 5. Turned up and placed over a fire, this iron piece was used to clean clothes. His sons, David, Jr. and Robert, inherited the Rims (Reems)

______Creek farm referred to by Mr. Vance as his plantation, as well as 3

slaves each. His six other children inherited slaves and land located 6. This wooden piece was used to tighten a bed’s ropes that supported the mattress. in the Bedford County area south of Nashville, Tennessee.

Robert was one of the first trained doctors in western North ______

Answer Choices: wash pot; shuttle; Dutch oven; Carolina, and served in the US House of Representatives . Following a drawknife; bed key; yoke failed campaign for a second term as representative, Robert provoked Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 26 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 33 David Vance the Backcountry Statesman Matching

Continued _____ First county west of the Blue Ridge 1. Chest _____ Early immigrants were called 2. Straw a duel with his competitor, Samuel Carson of Marion, resulting in _____ Used for making cloth 3. Ax Robert’s death. _____ Work animals 4. Flax David, Jr. served in the War of 1812 and was clerk of Bun- _____ Tool used for making shingles 5. Adze combe County court for several years. He moved the family to what is _____ Water source 6. Asheville now Marshall and opened a drover’s stand to cater to the needs of _____ Container used for making butter 7. Settlers travelers on the newly opened Buncombe Turnpike. David, Jr. died _____ Early mode of transportation 8. Corn unexpectedly in 1844. _____ Small bed for children 9. Weaving Two of David, Jr.’s sons were Robert Brank Vance and _____ Tool for smoothing logs 10. Buncombe Zebulon Baird Vance. Robert became a brigadier _____ County seat of Buncombe County 11. Spring general in the Civil War, was captured by the Union army, and spent a year in Union prison camps. He _____ Used in making medicine 12. Loom served as clerk of the Buncombe County court for _____ Bed for baby 13. Candle many years and spent twelve years in the US House _____ For storing blankets 14. Herbs of Representatives. _____ How cloth is made 15. Oxen

Zebulon Baird Vance, born on May 13, 1830, went on to _____ Plant for making linen thread 16. Trundle bed higher fame than any other of the Vances who had lived at the _____ Important crop (American) 17. Churn

Vance’s Reems Creek home. He was colonel of the 26th North Caro- _____ Used in mattress 18. Cradle lina regiment during the early years of the Civil War. After that he was _____ Tool for cutting trees 19. Wagon elected governor three times and served three terms as United States _____ Early light 20. Drawknife

Senator before his death on April 14, 1894. Page 32 Page 27

Zeb—Civil War 26th NC

9. David Vance, Jr. was the (htreaf) ______of (evognorr)

______

Zebulon B. Vance.

10. (ulebzno) ______Vance was born on Reems Creek on

(amy) ______13, 1830.

11. Young Zeb was a very (ieshicmusov) ______little

boy.

12. Zebulon Vance was a (onleolc) ______in the Twenty-

sixth North Carolina (ignemter) ______during the Civil

War.

13. Zebulon Vance was (cleedet) ______three times to

serve as

(reogorn) ______of North Carolina.

14. Zebulon Vance served North Carolina three terms in the US

(anetes) ______.

“The Three Colonels” Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 28 Pre-Visit & Post Visit Packet—House Page 31

Zeb—Civil War 26th NC SCRAMBLED WORDS

1. David Vance, Sr. served in the (lutnoiaryver) ______

War.

2. David Vance, Sr. moved from (orgnamont) ______in

Burke County to (lestet)

______in Reems Creek Valley in the late 1780’s.

3. David Vance, Sr. was a (lenoloc) ______in the Buncombe

County

(limaiti) ______.

4. David Vance, Sr. helped to (vryeus) ______the state line

between

(trohn) ______Carolina and (nteesnese) ______

in 1799. NC Twenty-sixth Regiment 5. David Vance, Sr. was the first (krecl) ______of Buncombe

County Court.

6. David Vance, Sr. is buried on the hill north of his (emser cerke)

home.

7. The Reems Creek farm contained eight (erddunh)

______ninety eight acres of land.

8. David Vance, Jr. was a (patcnai) ______in the War of

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Children were taught to help with the chores. Their work was David Vance had been a soldier in the American Revolution. also their recreation. Families got together to help build homes. In He walked with his wife and several small children across the moun- the fall of the year they had corn shucking parties to remove the out- tains. The settlers looked for good farming land on which to build side covering of the corn, called shucks. In the spring the ladies had their home. Fresh, pure water was plentiful here in the mountains. quilting bees. There was plenty of wild game, fruit, nuts, and berries for food. There

They dried vegetables and fruits to keep for winter food. If were no grocery stores, so they had to live off the land. salt was available, they pickled some foods. Potatoes, cabbage, and apples were buried in a pit lined with straw and covered with dirt to keep them fresh and safe from freezing.

Early settlers learned a great deal from Native Americans about farming and preserving food for the winter, such as drying corn and other vegetables.

The early settlers brought only things they needed when they

moved—an axe to cut trees for building a house, a gun to protect the

family and hunt animals for food, pots for cooking, and blankets to

keep warm. They made simple furniture such as beds, chairs, and

tables. They also wove cloth to make their own clothes.