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Things to do in North Carolina, Sightseeing and North Carolina Tourism
North Carolina Tourism - Planning a North Carolina Vacation
Below is a list of North Carolina tourist attractions, activities, events, hotels, restaurants and visitor information entries to help you plan a North Carolina Vacation! Find detailed information on the North Carolina tourism entries by clicking on their links. Narrow your search by selecting from a specific North Carolina travel category on the left hand menu.
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You can find North Carolina tourist attractions and activities in all of North Carolina's regions: Asheville, Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Durham, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Lenoir, New Bern, Raleigh, Wilmington, Winston-Salem and Other.
Fun Things to do during your North Carolina Vacation - Top North Carolina Tourist Attractions and Activities
Some of the most popular North Carolina tourist attractions that list on our site include Birthplace of Pepsi , Historic Stagville Plantation and Chinqua Penn Plantation and Vineyard.
Fun activities in North Carolina include NextCare offers free flu shots, Willowhaven Country Club and Loehmann's.
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Featured North Carolina Tourist Attractions and Activities
Please visit our North Carolina featured listings - Trans-Siberian Orchestra at RBC Center, Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Joel Coliseum, Carolina Panthers at Bank of America Stadium, Monster Jam at Greensboro Coliseum and Monster Jam at RBC Center.
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Buzzards Restaurant and Bar
Great Food, All Permits Bar, Pool Tables, Dance Floor
Category: Lenoir Recreation in North Carolina
Description of this Lenoir Activity: Located in downtown Lenoir, BUZZARDS is the place to be if you are looking for a "unique" dining and/or entertainment experience in Lenoir. For a full description of all BUZZARDS offers from a varied menu (served both on main dining floor or in the bar area),to dinner and a "concert" (35 ft wall of music DVD's - all genres of music) or dinner and dancing, or you are looking for that "Cheers" feel in an all American Tavern with a juke box, darts,video games and televisons, including a big screen to watch your favorite ballgames or racing, or you are looking for pool tables or some real "night life" in Lenoir know that BUZZARDS, is home to the only true "nightclub" in Lenoir....check us out at www.wegoplaces.com/Restaurant_134045.aspx.
BUZZARDS is open on Wednesday,Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 6:00pm till 2:00am. Full dinner menu is available until 10:00pm.
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Gunters Greenhouse and Garden Center
Located in durham nc growers of high quality plants
Category: Durham Shopping in North Carolina
Description of this Durham Activity: Gunters greenhouse and garden center of durham nc we are growers of high quality plants hard to find and common annuals, perennials, tropicals, vegetables, herbs, hanging baskets, container gardens, house plants, ferns, garden mums, poinsettia, flowering shrubs and potted plants for gifts for landscaping and home gardens buy direct from the grower and save. We are centrally located from raleigh, durham, cary, chapelhill, wake forest and hillsborough nc.
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PlayMakers Repertory Company
The Triangle's Premier Professional Theatre
Category: Chapel Hill Theatre in North Carolina
Description of this Chapel Hill Activity: PlayMakers Repertory Company was founded in 1976 by Tom Hass, Artistic Director, and Arthur Houseman, Executive Producer. As a member of the League of Resident Theatres, PlayMakers employs members of Actors\\\' Equity Association, members of United Scenic Artists Association; and members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
PlayMakers has a three-fold mission: 1) to engage our community in an ongoing exploration of the nature and significance of theatre in contemporary life; 2) to investigate the theatrical event and the methods used for its realization in performance; and 3) to nurture succeeding generations of artists and audiences to continue our work.
PlayMakers Repertory Company's major contribution to the art form has been in nurturing young American artists - actors, directors, and designers - capable of creative work in a broad stylistic range of contemporary and classical theatre. The company has also provided a creative home where seasoned artists can extend the range of their work. Young actors such as Michael Cumpsty, Kathryn Meisle, Joseph Haj, Bernard Addison, Fred Weller, and Sharon Lawrence have begun their professional careers here, and the company has contributed to the development of such emerging directors as Bartlett Sher, John Rando, Drew Barr, Michael Wilson, and Charles Newell. In addition, such seasoned performers as Eva Marie Saint, Kathleen Nolan, Judd Hirsch, Jonathan Bolt, Tandy Cronyn, DeAnn Mears and Trezana Beverley and directors such as John Rando, Daniel Fish, Nagle Jackson, John Dillon, Kent Paul, Tazewell Thompson, and Loretta Greco have taken on new creative challenges with our company and contributed to the atmosphere of artistic growth which we strive to maintain. Among the seasoned designers who have contributed to our ongoing work are Narelle Sissons, Bill Clarke, Robert Wierzel, M.L. Geiger, and Robert Brill, while we have nurtured the development of younger artists such as Patrick Holt, Todd Campbell, and Walt Spangler. International guest artists have included directors Laszlo Marton from Budapest and Mark Wing-Davey from London, designers Michael Levine and Victoria Wallace from Toronto and playwrights Simon Bent and Nick Stafford from London.
Our seasons have regularly featured exciting realizations of classics and lesser-known works by such writers as Shakespeare, Shaw, Wilde, Sheridan, Gay, Rostand, Ostrovsky, Chekhov, Beaumarchais, Coward, Ibsen, O\\\'Neill, Williams, and Miller. The repertoire is balanced each season with works by such contemporary playwrights as Donald Margulies, David Auburn, Margaret Edson, Romulus Linney, Lyle Kessler, Christopher Durang, Eric Overmyer, Barbara Lebow, Lee Blessing, Craig Lucas, Richard Nelson, and Edward Albee. In the 2003-2004 season, PlayMakers produced two American premieres: A Prayer for Owen Meany, a play for the stage by Simon Bent adapted from the novel by John Irving, and Nick Stafford\\\'s Luminosity. New plays developed and produced by PlayMakers include Sunrise in My Pocket: The Comical, Tragical, True History of Davy Crockett by Edwin Justus Mayer, adapted by Jeffrey Hayden, Constant Star by Tazewell Thompson, The Death of Papa by Horton Foote, For Lease or Sale by Elizabeth Spencer, The Guiteau Burlesque by Dick Beebe, Life on the Mississippi by Bland Simpson and Tommy Thompson of The Red Clay Ramblers, Mobile Hymn by Robert Litz, Sherman, the Peacemaker by James Reston, Jr., Threads by Jonathan Bolt, The Nutcracker: A Play by David Hammond, and Beauty and the Beast by To
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REAL MCCOY PAINTBALL
Play paintball, buy equipment, air fills, paintballs,
Category: Princeton Balloon Ride in North Carolina
Description of this North Carolina Activity: Play paintball at our field, friendly staff to assist you. Beginners as well as tournament players welcome. Air field, hyperball field, and wooded field. We carry a large supply of paintball equipment, markers, pod packs, clothing and parts. We have rentals for those just beginning, referees to help teach the game of paintball. Store open everyday except Wed. Field open weekends for play. If you have a group that would like to play during the week just call to set up an appointment. Youth events, Birthdays, and corporate groups welcome.
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Wildwater Ltd Rafting on the Nantahala River
Since 1971, a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee on the Nantahala
Category: Bryson City Rafting in North Carolina
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Description of this North Carolina Activity: Since 1971, Wildwater Ltd Rafting has a 100% Quality Assurance Guarantee. With Rafting Centers on four Southeast US rivers (Chattooga River GA/SC, Nantahala River NC, Ocoee River TN and Pigeon River TN), Wildwater has the longest season in the country (March through mid-November). On the Nantahala, Wildwater offers half day rafting trips, rentals, shuttles, and the Original Raft N' Rail Adventure. We provide exceptional service, modern facilities, top quality equipment and well-trained staff, with a variety of price ranges and skill levels, suitable for families, groups and thrill-seeking adrenaline junkies. Additional price discounts are available in the spring and fall. Go to www.wildwaterrafting.com or contact reservations directly at 800-451-9972 for more information.
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Appalachian National Scenic Trail
National Scenic Trail
Category: State of North Carolina National Park in North Carolina
Description of this North Carolina Attraction: The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,174-mile footpath along the ridgecrests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in northern Georgia. The trail traverses Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia. The Appalachian Trail (A.T.) is used by day, weekend and other short-term hikers, section-hikers and thru-hikers. Thru-hikers hike the entire length of the Trail in one season.
The A.T. began as a vision of forester Benton MacKaye and was developed by volunteers and opened as a continuous trail in 1937. It was designated as the first National Scenic Trail by the National Trails System Act of 1968. The Trail is currently protected along more than 99 percent of its course by federal or state ownership of the land or by rights-of-way. Annually, more than 4,000 volunteers contribute more than 185,000 hours of effort on th
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Asheville Outdoor Center family fun center
calm water float trips & Gem Mining
Category: Asheville Scenic in North Carolina
Description of this Asheville Attraction: Family friendly A.O.C offers calm water river trips in Asheville, NC through the Famed and Fabled Biltmore Estate Property. Our self guided float trips are easy, fun, and relaxing river trips in a canoe, a kayak, or raft. We also offer express tubing trips, and new for 2009 Gem Mining. Mine for precious stones, fossils, and minerals. Beautiful riverside facilities, picnic tables, vollyball, horsheshoes, basketball, childrens playplace, tether ball, ping pong, foosball, lots of room to strech out and play. Riverside access, scenic views of the historic French Broad River 3rd oldest in the world! Great place for events, reunions, corporate meeting, parties. Lets us show what great qualities Asheville, the French Broad River and the Asheville Outdoor Center have to offer!
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Blandwood
National Historic Landmark-House Museum
Category: Greensboro Historic Site in North Carolina
Description of this Greensboro Attraction: Blandwood's story begins in 1795, predating the founding of the city of Greensboro, North Carolina, (1808,) when Charles Bland built a simple four-room, two-down, two-up Federal style clapboard farmhouse on a wooded hill in Guilford County. The two rooms on the first floor were laid out in the front parlor and hall model; he would call his home Blandwood.
The farmhouse was eventually expanded from four rooms to six rooms in 1822 by a subsequent owner, Henry Humphreys, a local businessman who opened the first steam powered textile mill in North Carolina, Mt. Hecla Cotton Mill. Humphreys would also use this opportunity to update the interior of the house, adding more ornate mouldings and mantels.
John Motley Morehead (1796-1866) purchased Blandwood in 1827 from Humphreys. Morehead had begun an illustrious political career in 1821 at the age of 25, when he was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons. His career culminated with his election to the state’s highest office, Governor, in 1840, when he served two two-year terms as North Carolina's governor from 1841-1845. As a Whig, he supported an ambitious program of internal improvements including a statewide rail and water transportation system, free public schools, more humane treatment of deaf and blind children, prisoners, and the mentally ill. These policies were very progressive for the Old North State, earning him the nickname, "Father of Modern North Carolina."
During this time, the Morehead family, which consisted of his wife, Ann Eliza Lindsey Morehead and their eight children, continued to live in the six room farmhouse that was Blandwood. Upon election to the governorship, Morehead felt the time was right to expand and glorify his home. In 1844, Morehead chose an architect he was familiar with, Alexander Jackson Davis, co-designer of the NC State Capital, to design a substantial addition to the farmhouse. This addition, completed in 1846, was built in the Italianate style and is the oldest surviving example in the United States.
Governor and Mrs. Morehead would live at Blandwood until their respective deaths in 1866 and 1868. At that time their youngest son, Eugene Morehead, was unmarried and living at home, subsequently, part of his inheritance was Blandwood. After living at Blandwood for a few years, Eugene married in 1874 and moved to Savannah, Georgia.
The last members of the Morehead family to live at Blandwood were Julius and Emma Morehead Gray who purchased the home from her brother. The Gray's lived at Blandwood until 1896, by which time, most of the family had passed away during a tuberculosis epidemic.
In 1896, Emma Gray’s remaining brothers and sisters were faced with the dilemma of what to do with Blandwood. They were approached by Col. William Osbourne, who wanted to rent Blandwood for use as a Keeley Institute, a franchise of hospitals to treat alcohol and drug addiction with the infamous “Gold Cure.” Initially renting Blandwood, the Keeley Institute would purchase Blandwood in January of 1906, while they maintained the architecture of the Davis addition to the main building, the two dependences were removed. The Keeley Institute operated at Blandwood until 1961.
By 1966, Blandwood stood empty and in danger of demolition. At this time Preservation Greensboro Incorporated formed to save and restore Blandwood. The restoration of the main building took ten years and Blandwood was opened to the public in 1976 as part of the country's bicentennial celebration. In 1984, after archaeological investigation of the property, the two depend
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Buzzards, Restaurant,Bar & NightClub
great eats, drinks, dancing, DJ, pool tables, darts
Category: Lenoir Music in North Carolina
Description of this Lenoir Attraction: OPEN WEDNESDAY,THURSDAY,FRIDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHTS FROM 6:00PM TILL 2:00AM...BUZZARDS is the place to be if you are looking for an evening of dining/entertainment and/or nightclub experience. We have it all!!! BUZZARDS offers great food, an all ABC permits bar and an ambiance of casual yet sophisticated. We offer a safe but “fun” atmosphere. BUZZARDS,is Lenoir’s downtown restaurant/bar,poolroom and only true "nightclub" in Lenoir.
Located at 819 West Avenue, (downtown Lenoir) At 10:00pm the main dining floor is transformed into the "hippest" club in town..Enjoy a variety of dance music from disco, blues, hip-hop,Top 40,country and rock & roll. The dance floor on the main floor is non-smoking until 10:00pm but after 10:00pm smoking is allowed. Bet you, you will run into old friends and/or make new friends...ages run from 21 to 81 (and boy can he "cut the rug")!!
After 10:00 pm to enter you must be 21 years old with proper id.
BUZZARDS is the only place in town that offers you while dining on the main floor, the pleasure and uniqueness of listening to and viewing on our 35 ft. wall, music DVD's of all genres. The early diners get to choose their favorite's.....if dinner and a "concert" isn't enticing enough...then how about dinner and dancing...You have the option from 6:00pm till 10:00pm of chosing your choice of dance music - from the oldies,to shag,to line dancing, to the cha cha!! Many regulars bring their own cd's...depending on size of crowd we do try to accomodate everyone --so you can get your groove on...Great fun for couples and groups.
BUZZARDS offers a variety of appetizers and entrees including baseball sirloin steaks, filet mignon, fried oysters, 3 marinated grilled chicken choices..there is something to please every appetite! Dinner or appetizers are available both in the bar area (smoking) and on the main floor (non-smoking) from 6:00pm till 10:00pm.
BUZZARDS also offers a full service bar on the first level (entrance on Church Street)that is a good example of what an American tavern should be - fun, friendly, lively, cozy, and with good food to go with it. With all ABC permits we offer wine, draft and bottle beers and cocktails!! We dare to say we have the largest selection of alcohol products in Lenoir. It is not uncommon to find the jukebox blaring and the tables pushed aside for impromptu dancing and a friendly game of darts going on. Better yet, watch your favorite ball game, game show or Presidential Address to the Nation (afraid that doesn't happen) on our 3 televisions throughout the bar area - including a "big screen"...
We also offer on our 3rd floor, pool tables ($1.00 a game), video games and a jukebox. There is plenty of seating and tables for eating. Smoking is allowed on this floor....but we ventilate well!!
BUZZARDS is becoming very popular for private parties, whether celebrating birthdays, anniversaries, baby or wedding showers, school or family reunions, bachelor or bachelorette parties and wedding receptions. Rental rates are the best in town and building is available for 1, 2 or 3 floors!! Got to mention the ambiance --no to small or to large, boring or dull looking party rooms you find in hotels or other restaurants. Call and make an appointment to check us out --or better yet -check out the others first and then come to BUZZARDS--you will be shouting "PARTY" - when you see what we can offer!!
Remember, BUZZARDS is open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights from 6:00pm until 2:00am.....Phone number is (828) 758-4498
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Caldwell Heritage Museum
Provides a chronological history of Caldwell County.
Category: Lenoir Museum in North Carolina
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Description of this Lenoir Attraction: The Caldwell Historical Society opened the Caldwell Heritage Museum in 1991 in the last remaining building of Davenport College which was organized in 1855. The original college was built on land donated by William A. Lenoir and named for General William Lenoir’s son-in-law, Colonial William Davenport, who contributed the most money for the school.
The museum provides a chronological history of Caldwell County from pre-colonial days until the present. There are exhibits containing articles from the Native Americans, Revolutionary Period, early National Period, and the Civil War Era. Also, the museum has collections on medical, music, military, cameras, and Oriental art.
Operating hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10:00 am until 4:30 pm, and on Saturdays from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. Other times are available by appointment. For more information, call the museum at 828-758-4004.
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