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WINNABOW – Archaeological investigations at Brunswick Town/Ft. Anderson State Historic Site have discovered a 147 year old wooden gun platform that supported an 11,360 lb. Sea Coast 32-Pounder cannon. The excavations mark the first archaeology to be undertaken at the site in over 40 years and are the [...]
RALEIGH – For most North Carolina students prior to the Civil War, education was only available a few weeks or months a year to white children only, if at all. Families often paid for schooling since public schools had limited geographic reach. Only white male property owners could vote or hold office. That and more [...]
RALEIGH – When today’s 27th North Carolina Troops re-enactors participate in a program at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 23, they will wear the same kind of uniforms and carry the same kind of weapons as did the 27th North Carolina Troops during the Civil War. The original [...]
RALEIGH – President Barack Obama is known to be a Lincoln scholar and frequently quotes from the16th president’s speeches and writings. President Obama is scheduled to attend the Springfield, Ill., Lincoln Bicentennial Symposium. More scholarship about Honest Abe will be shared here at “The Lincoln Bicentennial: A Symposium” at the N.C. Museum of History on [...]
RALEIGH – Andrew Johnson became America’s 17th president the day after President Lincoln was assassinated. Three tumultuous years later, he was the first president to be impeached.
“Andrew Johnson and the Challenge of Presidential Leadership after the Civil War” will be presented at the State Capitol at noon, Dec. 1, by Dr. Dan T. Carter, one [...]
FOUR OAKS - The evocative aroma of assorted homemade dishes cooked over on open hearth will fill the kitchen at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site during a fall civilian living history program scheduled Saturday, Oct. 4 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Because of shortages, food substitutes such as sweet potato coffee, “artificial oysters” (corn substituted for [...]
Come see the benefit performance “Oldest Living Confederate Widow: Her Confession” with Jane Holding Friday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Tryon Palace Visitor Center Auditorium. Meet Jane Holding and Allan Gurganus, author of the New York Times best selling novel, “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All” at a reception and book signing following [...]
DURHAM—Come visit a typical Confederate recruiting and training camp at Bennett Place State Historic Site in Durham, when Confederate soldiers of the “Old North State” encamp around the historic Bennett Farm on Saturday, Aug. 23, and Sunday, Aug. 24. Some 50 to 75 period-costumed “soldiers” of the 26th and 6th N.C. Infantry reenactment groups will [...]
RALEIGH – With back-to-school shopping well underway and the classroom doors swinging open, families in North Carolina can enjoy the last bit of summer fun at the 27 North Carolina State Historic Sites. A six percent increase in visitation in the 2007-08 fiscal year (FY) compared to last fiscal year shows that visitors are maximizing [...]
RALEIGH – The experiences of a Confederate prisoner of war and a state legislator during the last days of Reconstruction are chronicled in the newly published book, “Worthy of Record: The Civil War and Reconstruction Diaries of Columbus Lafayette Turner,” edited by Kenrick N. Simpson. It was published by the Historical Publications Section of the N.C. [...]