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Chinqua Penn Plantation and Vineyard
Historic home & garden tours, wine tastings, weddings/events
Category: Reidsville Historic Site in North Carolina
Description of this North Carolina Attraction: Featured on A&E's America's Castles and acclaimed as an architectural American treasure, Chinqua Penn Plantation near Reidsville, North Carolina, was the home of Jeff and Betsy Penn. Mr. Penn was founder of the Penn Tobacco Company. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Plantation includes a 27 room English countryside mansion filled with elaborate furnishings from 30 countries, surrounded by 22 acres of beautiful gardens and historic landscape. The estate showcases the state's premier collection of eclectic decorative arts. Built in the 1920's by Thomas Jefferson Penn (1875-1946) and his wife, Beatrice Schoellkopf Penn (1881-1965), Chinqua Penn reflects their lifestyle of entertaining, traveling, and collecting art and furniture from around the world. The historic landscape evolved into an exotic horticulture collection, changing with each season. The Penn's love of the beautiful and artistic was manifested in the use of both native and imported plant material at Chinqua Penn. Chinqua Penn is named for the chinquapin, a dwarf chestnut tree. Once abundant here, most chinquapins were destroyed by the chestnut blight in the 1930's. Ownership was transferred to Calvin Phelps in 2006 and the house and gardens are now open to the public for tours.
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Duke Homestead State Historic Site
1852 home and farm of the Washington Duke family
Category: Durham Historic Site in North Carolina
Description of this Durham Attraction: At Duke Homestead, visitors can tour the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. Duke's sons later founded The American Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco company in the world. The Dukes became one of the wealthiest families in the country at the turn of the 20th century and now lend their name to Duke University, Duke Energy, and the Duke Endowment.
Duke Homestead offers an orientation film twice an hour, an extensive tobacco museum, and guided tours of the surviving historical structures on the grounds. Among these structures are early Bright Leaf tobacco barns, Washington Duke's first and third factories, and his 1852 homestead.
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Fort Defiance
18th century home with 300 original furnishings and items.
Category: Lenoir Historic Site in North Carolina
Description of this Lenoir Attraction: Located in the Happy Valley community on highway 268, General William Lenoir built his home between 1788 and 1792 on the former site of the fort, which was designed to protect settlers from the early Native Americans in the area. The home of William Lenoir has been fully restored to its late eighteenth, early nineteenth century grandeur and features more than 300 original furnishings.
General Lenoir became famous as a captain at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. William Lenoir served as major general of the state militia, president of the Council of State, president for the first two years of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina, justice of the peace, register, surveyor, chairman of the county court, and clerk of superior court for Wilkes County. The City of Lenoir, the county of Lenoir, and Lenoir Hall at the University of North Carolina are named after General Lenoir.
Custom guided tours are available to visitors. Fort Defiance is home to several unique splendors, such as a 200-year-old English boxwood garden, and a 200-year-old hybrid Chestnut tree, and the oldest Beech tree in North Carolina.
Hours of Operation: April – October (Thurs. – Sat., 10 am – 5 pm and Sun 1 pm – 5 pm)
November – March (Weekends only or by appointment) Call for hours. For more information, call Fort Defiance at 828-758-1671.
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Greensboro Coliseum Complex
Entertainment/Sports Complex
Category: Greensboro Music in North Carolina
Description of this Greensboro Attraction: The Greensboro Coliseum Complex was conceived as, and continues to be a multi-building facility to serve the Citizens of Greensboro and the surrounding area through a broad range of activities, including athletic events, cultural arts, concerts, theater, and other entertainment, educational activities, fairs, exhibits, and public and private events of all kinds, such as conventions, convocations, trade and consumer shows. It is both a primary center of activity for the community as well as one of many resources central to community-wide events. Therefore, the Complex must provide opportunities for community activities and events while operating as a facility which generates economic activity in Greensboro. The Greensboro Coliseum Complex has a rich history as one of the premiere sports and entertainment facilities in the Southeast, host to such prestigious events as the ACC Tournament, ECHL hockey, and the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Since 1959, the Coliseum has featured superstars from Elvis to Usher.
The Complex has undergone several major renovations, the latest in 1994, bringing the maximum arena capacity to its current 23,500.
Owned by the City of Greensboro, the complex features a flexible capacity arena that can accommodate concerts and events for 4,000 to 23,000 fans; a 2,376 seat auditorium for Broadway theatre and concerts; and a 120,000 square foot Special Events Center for trade and consumer shows and 20,000 square feet of space for meetings of all sizes. The Special Events Center also features a 4,300 seat theater set-up for concerts and sporting events.
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Moores Creek National Battlefield
National Park
Category: Currie National Park near Wilmington, North Carolina
Description of this Wilmington area Attraction: 1776 PATRIOT VICTORY
"King George and Broadswords!" shouted loyalists as they charged across partially dismantled Moores Creek bridge on February 27, 1776. Just beyond the bridge nearly a thousand North Carolina patriots waited quietly with cannons and muskets poised to fire.
The loyalists, mostly Scottish Highlanders wielding broadswords, expected to find only a small patriot force. As the loyalists advanced across the bridge, patriot shots rang out and dozens of loyalists fell, including their commanders.
Stunned, outgunned and leaderless, the loyalists surrendered, retreating in confusion. Wagons, weapons and British sterling worth more than $1 million by today's value were seized by the patriots in the days following the battle.
This dramatic victory ended British authority in the colony and greatly influenced North Carolina to be the first colony to vote for independence. The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge, coupled with the Battle of Sullivans Island near Charleston, SC a few months later, ultimately led the 13 colonies to declare independence on July 4, 1776.
THE BATTLEFIELD TODAY
Throughout the park, remnants remain of the 1776 road traveled by patriot and loyalist forces. A 1-mile trail with wayside exhibits leads through the battlefield and across Moores Creek. The historic bridge site is located along the trail.
The park offers a visitor center with exhibits and audio-visual program; a .3 mile colonial forest trail, and a picnic area.
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Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
It's fun to learn about science at MPSC!
Category: Chapel Hill Museum in North Carolina
Description of this Chapel Hill Attraction: Morehead Planetarium and Science Center opened in 1949 as the first planetarium on a state university campus in the United States. In the 1960s and 1970s, MPSC served as the training center for NASA's astronauts, who came to Chapel Hill to learn about celestial navigation in MPSC's Star Theater.
Today, MPSC offers exhibits, guest speakers, live science demonstrations, contemporary science programming, skywatching sessions and camps, as well as traditional planetarium "star shows" in its Star Theater. Yes, you can learn about science in the same room where 11 of the 12 "Moonwalkers"
learned!
Be sure to explore MPSC's newest exhibits, "Zoom In" and "The Ancient Carolinians," with interactive experiences for kids of all ages.
The Morehead Building also serves as home for the UNC Visitors Center, the Genevieve B. Morehead Art Gallery, the Morehead Observatory, the Morehead-Cain Foundation, a giant sundial and a rose garden.
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The Greensboro Children's Museum
A hands-on, interactive & educational play place for kids!
Category: Greensboro Museum in North Carolina
Description of this Greensboro Attraction: The Greensboro Children's Museum is a hands-on, interactive, and educational play place for children newborn through age 10 and their families. The 37,000 square foot facility in downtown Greensboro Museum provides quality educational programming and a wide variety of exhibits in “Our Town” that invite young visitors to learn while they play, explore, touch, discover, create and imagine. Children can go grocery shopping in a pint-sized market, fly a real DC-jet, pretend to be a fireman riding a real fire truck, put on a play in the Theater, pretend to be a dentist in the Health Center, cook up a meal in Nonie’s house, be a conductor on our new train or learn how to grow vegetables in our new Edible Schoolyard. Infants and toddlers even have fun here playing on the soft mats and crawling in the tunnels of our Tot Spot area. It’s where play is a smart adventure!
The Greensboro Children’s Museum’s mission is to provide children with an interactive, educational learning experience that will enhance their daily lives and open heir hearts and minds to an understanding of the world in which they live. GCM is a private not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization.
The Greensboro Children’s Museum is located at 220 N. Church Street, Greensboro NC 27401, 336-574-2898, www.gcmuseum.com. The Museum is open seven days a week and has an admission charge of $6 for children 1+ and adults. Children under 1 are free. There is a reduced price admission for seniors and military families and half priced admission costs ($3) on Friday nights and Sundays.
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