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The Discovery Center began as the "Discovery House", a children's museum, in 1986. [1] During its first year of operation it had 11,000 visitors. [2]In 1995 after it outgrew its old location the Discovery House staff, Congressman Bart Gordon and Murfreesboro Mayor Joe Jackson, with the help of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, began to study the possibility of reusing the vacated site ...
William Rea Store is a historic commercial building located in the Murfreesboro Historic District at Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina. It was built about 1790, and is a two-story, three-bay, brick building with a one-story, three-bay wing. It is one of the oldest commercial buildings in North Carolina. The brickwork is laid in ...
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 ...
North Carolina: The Children's Museum at Yunker Farm: Fargo: North Dakota: Located in first brick house in the Dakota territory Children's Neighborhood Museum: Round Lake: Illinois: Part of the Round Lake Area Park District The Children's Playhouse: Boone: North Carolina: Children's Science Explorium: Boca Raton: Florida: Community Children's ...
The Brady C. Jefcoat Museum of Americana is a museum in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, USA.Operated by the Murfreesboro Historical Association, the museum houses a collection of American artifacts from the 1850s to the 1950s collected by Brady C. Jefcoat of Raleigh, North Carolina, a local plumber, electrician and general contractor.
The current building was built circa 1917–8 and was operated as a school for African-American children until 1955, [4] when the school moved to the current Bradley Academy location on Mercury Boulevard. Murfreesboro City Schools converted the building into a maintenance facility.
The Association of Children's Museums (ACM) is a Washington, D.C.–based organization that represents more than 300 children's museums in 23 countries throughout the world. [1] The association began in 1962 as the American Association of Youth Museums and grew out of the desire for children's museums to meet as a separate group during the ...
Murfreesboro Historic District is a national historic district located at Murfreesboro, Hertford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses nine contributing buildings in the oldest section of the city of Murfreesboro. The buildings include notable examples of Greek Revival style architecture.