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Louisburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Louisburg, Franklin County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 206 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 6 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in residential sections of Louisburg included in the original 1779 town plan.
Plain-folk concepts of masculinity explain why so many men enlisted: they wanted to be worthy of the privileges of men, including the affections of female patriots. By March 1862, the piney woods region of Georgia had a 60% enlistment rate, comparable to that found in planter areas. [10] As the war dragged on, hardship became a way of life.
Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina, United States.The main residence, Biltmore House (or Biltmore Mansion), is a Châteauesque-style mansion built for George Washington Vanderbilt II between 1889 and 1895 [2] and is the largest privately owned house in the United States, at 178,926 sq ft (16,622.8 m 2) of floor space and 135,280 sq ft ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Georgia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Joseph B. Littlejohn House is a historic home located at Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina built between about 1820 and 1832. Originally the residence of Anna Maria and Joseph Blount Littlejohn, it is a two-story, five-bay, transitional Federal / Georgian style heavy timber frame dwelling.
The Great Dismal Swamp spans an area of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between the James River near Norfolk, Virginia, and the Albemarle Sound near Edenton, North Carolina. [8] The swamp is estimated to have originally been over 1 million acres (4,000 km 2), [8] but human encroachment has destroyed up to 90% of the swampland.
Plymouth Historic District is a national historic district located in Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina.The district encompasses 258 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Plymouth [citation needed].
Archaeological excavations performed by Dr. David Moore during the early 1980s, revealed artifacts and other evidence that the earliest inhabitants of McDowell County lived there from the Woodland period and Mississippian culture era, from 250 to 1500 AD. Dr. Moore discovered this material in an area close to the Catawba River, in and around an unusual topographical site known as Round Hill. [4]