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[1] focused on the textile industry and life in mill towns in North Carolina and the American south. Located within the Glencoe Mill Village Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, [2] the museum is housed in the former management offices and company store built in 1880.
College Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Clinton, Sampson County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 22 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of Clinton.
Formerly North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, science and natural history exhibits Museum of North Carolina Minerals: Spruce Pine: Mitchell: Western: Natural history: Minerals and gems found in the area and state [65] [66] Museum of North Carolina Traditional Pottery: Seagrove: Randolph: Piedmont Triad: Art: Features displays from ...
The North Carolina Museum of History, which gets nearly a half million visitors a year, will close for renovations lasting two to three years. The third-floor exhibits of the downtown Raleigh ...
The N.C. Children’s Museum is anticipated to be a 70,000-square-foot building with four levels, most of which will be built into the slope of a hill at 510 Mt. Carmel Church Road in Chapel Hill.
Clinton is the geographic center of the county, and because Sampson County is primarily rural farmland, Clinton developed as the major agricultural marketing center. Clinton is also where future 13th Vice President William R. King , (1786-1853), later of Alabama , under 14th President Franklin Pierce , (1804-1869), of New Hampshire , was born ...
North Carolina: 1974 [76] Henderson Institute Historical Museum: Henderson: North Carolina: 1986 [77] Hotel Metropolitan Museum: Paducah: Kentucky [78] Houston Museum of African American Culture: Houston: Texas: 2012 [79] Howard County Center of African American Culture: Columbia: Maryland: 1987 [80] Idaho Black History Museum: Boise: Idaho ...
Gadsden's Wharf is a wharf located in Charleston, South Carolina. It was the first destination for an estimated 100,000 enslaved Africans during the peak of the international slave trade. [ 1 ] Some researchers have estimated that 40% of the enslaved Africans in the United States landed at Gadsden's Wharf. [ 2 ]