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Friends are coming in from out of state. They are huge history buffs. They want you to take them to FIVE PLACES that best tell the history of North Carolina.
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Today's blog topic was triggered by a wonderful UNC TV program last night. Archeologists discovered remnants of a 16th century Spanish settlement near Morganton where I grew up in the NC Foothills. This fort and settlement of 120 Spaniards existed two decades before the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island at Manteo.
Spain planned to use the settlement to help convert natives to Catholicism and carve out a short route to the gold and other riches of Mexico. Archeologist Rob Beck told the News Herald just how significant the Morganton discovery is: "This is a place here under our feet that is as important as the areas of Rome, Peru and Egypt."
That's both impressive and fascinating!
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Duke Homestead in Durham ... it gives a great overview of the entire tobacco industry and its effect on NC.
The House-in-the-Horseshoe near Sanford.
The historic homes of Hillsborough
Seagrove (surprised nobody mentioned this or maybe I missed it)
And one twofer: Alamance Battleground and a wonderful gem: The Alamance County Historical Museum, just up the road from the battleground both near Burlington.
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http://www.enoriver.org/eno/parks/occspdwy.htm
Either that or the Super Walmart at Brier Creek.
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16th Century: First we would go to Roanoke Island and search for the Lost Colony. 17th Century: From there, we would sail up the Albemarle Sound and into the region that would become our first capital. 18th Century: Over to Greensboro to think about the Battle of Guilford Courthouse. 19th Century: No historic trip should miss Wilmington, the site of the last Southern port to fall. 20th Century: We would finally drive across to Biltmore which, while built in the 19th Century, became a public treasure in the 20th.
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