{"id":328,"date":"2012-06-30T18:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T18:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitefix.net\/clients\/Generic\/?page_id=328"},"modified":"2018-11-07T16:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T16:44:33","slug":"historic-sites","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/FayettevilleNC3\/?page_id=328","title":{"rendered":"Regional Historic Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

HISTORICAL ATTRACTIONS \/ REGIONAL HISTORIC SITES<\/p>\n

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Station
\n<\/strong>472 Hay Street
\nFayetteville 910-433-1612
\nBuilt in 1911, this rare example of Dutch Colonial architecture features an outside passenger and freight platform and shelter that date back to World War I. The depot currently serves as an Amtrak rail station.<\/p>\n

Arsenal Park
\n<\/strong>Museum of the Cape Fear
\n801 Arsenal Avenue
\nFayetteville 910-486-1330
\nhttps:\/\/museumofthecapefear.ncdcr.gov\/arsenal-park<\/a>
\nThe U.S. Arsenal commissioned in Fayetteville in 1836 was taken over by the Confederacy when the Civil War broke out and later burned by Sherman when he seized the city in 1865.<\/p>\n

Averasboro Civil War Battlefield
\n<\/strong>3300 Highway 82 Dunn
\nDunn 910-891-5019
\nwww.averasboro.com<\/a>
\nHistoric markers highlight the events of this March 1865 military action and the Chicora Cemetery where the battle dead were buried.<\/p>\n

Barges Tavern
\n<\/strong>515 Ramsey Street
\nFayetteville 910-323-4587
\nwww.visitfayettevillenc.com\/listing\/barges-tavern\/780\/<\/a>
\nBuilt circa 1800, this rare surviving example of a one-and-a-half story frame building with a central chimney currently serves as the home of the North Carolina Military Business Center.<\/p>\n

Bryant House & McLendon Cabin
\n<\/strong>3361 Mt. Carmel Road
\nCathage 910-692-2051
\nwww.moorehistory.com<\/a>
\nOne of the oldest standing structure\u2019s, this house was home to early settlers in the 1700 and 1800\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The Campbell House
\n<\/strong>US Highway 421
\nBuies Creek
\n910-893-3132
\nThe beautiful 1890 home of James Archibald Campbell, founder of Campbell University, is used today as a cultural venue and reception hall.<\/p>\n

Cape Fear Botanical Gardens
\n<\/strong>536 N. Eastern Boulevard
\nFayetteville 910-486-0221
\nwww.capefearbg.org<\/a>
\nAlong with the gardens, an authentic 1800s farmhouse and outbuildings are surrounded by a Heritage Garden.<\/p>\n

Clarion Hotel Prince Charles
\n<\/strong>450 Hay Street
\nFayetteville 910-433-4444
\nwww.choicehotels.com<\/a>
\nReminiscent of an Italian palazzo, this 1925 eight-story landmark features Palladian windows and doors, marble floors and staircases, and soaring columns and pilasters.<\/p>\n

Cool Spring Tavern
\n<\/strong>119 Cool Spring Street
\nFayetteville 910-433-1612
\nAlthough not open to the public, this 1788 structure with Federal-style architecture is the oldest in the city and housed the delegates who ratified the United States Constitution for North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Cross Creek Cemetery
\n<\/strong>Cool Spring & Grove Streets
\nFayetteville 910-433-1612
\nEstablished in 1785, this historic cemetery is the final resting place of many of Fayetteville’s prominent early citizens and the site of the oldest Confederate monument in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Endor Iron Furnace
\n<\/strong>Near Cumnock and Sanford
\nhttps:\/\/leecountync.gov\/LeeCountyHistory\/EndorIronFurnace<\/a>
\nThe Endor Iron Furnace near the community of Cumnock, NC (near Sanford in Lee County) was in use from the early 1860’s until 1874 and was a pig iron furnace. The site will be developed as a nature preserve and park, and the furnace may be eventually restored.<\/p>\n

Fayetteville Market House
\n<\/strong>Downtown District
\nFayetteville 910-482-4242
\nhttps:\/\/www.visitfayettevillenc.com\/listing\/market-house\/286\/<\/a>
\nSituated at the intersection of Hay, Gillespie, Person & Green streets, the Market House is the focal point of downtown Fayetteville. Architecturally unique in North Carolina, this is one of the few structures in America to use the town-hall-market scheme found in England. Many distinguished visitors have spoken from its balconies.<\/p>\n

Fayetteville State University
\n<\/strong>1200 Murchison Road
\nFayetteville 910-672-1111
\nwww.uncfsu.edu<\/a>
\nEstablished in 1867 as the Howard School, this facility became the State Colored Normal School in 1877 and is distinguished as the second-oldest public institution of higher learning in the state.<\/p>\n

Fayetteville State University Planetarium
\n<\/strong>1200 Murchison Road
\nFayetteville 910-672-1111
\nhttps:\/\/www.uncfsu.edu\/community\/planetarium<\/a>
\nCustom group programs are available at this facility that features a Spitz model 512 projector with 2354 stars and a 30-foot dome.<\/p>\n

Heritage Square
\n<\/strong>225 Dick Street
\nFayetteville 910-483-6009
\nwww.heritagesquarefay.org\/about-us\/<\/a>
\nThe home of the Fayetteville Women’s Club on Heritage Square encompasses the historic sites of Sanford House built in 1800, the Oval Ballroom, and the 1804 Baker-Haigh-Nimocks House.<\/p>\n

Historic CF&YVRR Train Station
\n<\/strong>Downtown District
\nFayetteville 910-484-4242
\nThe depot that opened in 1890 to serve the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad Company features bricks manufactured by E.A. Poe. Other notable features include an onion-shaped lightning rod and steep hip roof.<\/p>\n

Historic<\/strong> Orange Street School
\n<\/strong>600 Orange Street
\nFayetteville 910-484-4242
\nThe oldest existing structure in the city associated with public education was appropriated in 1915 to educate African-American children.
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\nHouse in The Horseshoe
\n<\/strong>324 Alston House Road
\n910-947-2051
\nwww.nchistoricsites.org\/horsesho\/horsesho.htm<\/a>
\nFormerly a cotton plantation, this 18th<\/sup> century plantation has annual events including a reenactment of the Revolutionary War.
\n
\nThe Howard House<\/strong>
\n402 S. Layton Avenue
\nDunn 910-892-4113
\nAvailable for private parties, this 1908 Neo-classical Revival house with a full-length portico is a replica of the North Carolina building at the Jamestown Tri-centennial Exposition held in Jamestown, Virginia, in 1907.
\n
\nKyle House
\n<\/strong>234 Green Street
\nFayetteville 910-483-7405
\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Kyle-House\/544888032309349<\/a>
\nRebuilt in 1855 after the great fire of 1831, this house has been integrated into the St. John’s Episcopal Church complex as a fine example of Greek Revival and Italianate architecture.<\/p>\n

Liberty Point
\n<\/strong>Bow & Person Streets
\nFayetteville 910-433-1612
\nThe city’s oldest commercial structure circa 1790 rests on a site where patriots signed a petition declaring independence from Great Britain on June 20, 1775.
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\nMalcolm Blue Farm
\n<\/strong>1177 Bethesda Road
\nAberdeen 910-944-7558
\nwww.townofaberdeen.net\/pview.aspx?id=3520&catID=29<\/a>
\nListed on the National Register of Historic Places, this farm was built around 1825 and features a farmhouse, barns, the old gristmill and a wooden water tower.
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\nMallett-Rogers House
\n<\/strong>Methodist College
\n5400 Ramsey Street
\nFayetteville 910-630-7000
\nwww.methodist.edu\/art<\/a>
\nBuilt circa 1830 and restored in 1986, this historic home features exhibits, paintings, sculpture, and mixed-media works by Methodist College art faculty and students.
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\n<\/strong>Moore County Historical Association
\n<\/strong>Post Office Box 324
\nSouthern Pines, NC
\n<\/strong>http:\/\/moorehistory.com<\/a>
\nThe Moore County Historical Associations maintains a collection of historical homes and buildings that are open to the public and available for yours.<\/p>\n

North Carolina Civil War Trails
\n<\/strong>Locations Vary
\n800-VISIT-NC
\nhttp:\/\/civilwartrails.org\/about.html<\/a>
\nThe centerpiece of the trail is a driving tour of the 1865 Carolinas Campaign following many of the roads the soldiers used. That tour includes the battlefields at Bentonville and Averasboro and the site of the surrender of the Confederate army near Durham.<\/p>\n

North Carolina State Capitol
\n<\/strong>One East Edenton Street
\nRaleigh 919-733-4994
\nwww.ah.dcr.state.nc.us\/sections\/hs\/capitol<\/a>
\nThis National Historic Landmark is one of the finest and best-preserved examples of the Greek Revival style of architecture in the nation.
\n
\n<\/strong>Ole Gilliam Mill Park
\n<\/strong>Hwy 42 West
\nSanford, NC 919-776-3196
\nhttp:\/\/www.olegilliammill.org<\/a>
\nIn addition to the mill, visitors can see a saw mill and an old kiln on the property.
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\nOld Post Historic District
\n<\/strong>Cultural Resources Program
\nFort Bragg 910-396-6680
\n910-396-8988
\nwww.bragg.army.mil\/<\/a>
\nFirst established as a National Army Camp in 1918 in response to World War I, the Old Post District served as a planned community in the early 1900s. The Beaux Arts landscape plan is composed of Spanish Eclectic and Georgian Revival-style buildings unified by the use of stucco and brick materials.<\/p>\n

Overhills Historic District
\n<\/strong>Cultural Resources Program
\nFort Bragg
\n910-396-6680
\n910-396-8988
\nwww.bragg.army.mil\/<\/a>
\nClaiming a rich history of use and development, this land was sold by the third generation descendants of Percy and Isabel Rockefeller in the 1990s to the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n

Poe House
\n<\/strong>Museum of the Cape Fear
\n801 Arsenal Avenue
\nFayetteville 910-486-1330
\nwww.ncmuseumofhistory.org\/osm\/mcf.html<\/a>
\nConstructed in 1897 and beautifully restored, this late Victorian residence was the home of a successful businessman, politician, and civic leader.<\/p>\n

Railroad House Historical Association
\nDowntown Sanford, Inc.
\n<\/strong>226 Carthage Street
\nSanford 919-776-7479
\nhttp:\/\/www.railroadhouse.org\/railroad-house-historical-association.html<\/a>
\nOriginally built as a home for the first depot agent of the Raleigh and Augusta Airline Railroad, the Railroad House now houses the local museum.
\n
\nTown Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site<\/strong>
\n509 Town Creek Mound Road
\nMt. Gilead 910-439-6802
\nwww.nchistoricsites.org\/town\/town.htm<\/a>
\nHistoric site that brings to life the culture of the Muskogean Indians of the Pee Dee area\u00a0 through interpretive exhibits and a slide show presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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