State Capitol - Raleigh

Near the center of the State is the capitol city of Raleigh, NC. The Capitol Building is located on Union Square in downtown Raleigh. The present building was built in 1840 after the previous building burned in 1831.

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Legislative Building .........Executive Mansion .

The new Legislative Building was completed in January of 1963. It houses the Senate Chamber, House Chamber, General Assembly, and all support facilities necessary for the efficient operation of each.

The Executive Mansion (Governor's Mansion) was completed in 1891 and sits on Burke Square,a short distance from the Capitol Building. Most of the building materials came from North Carolina and the Mansion was built using Prison Labor.

House in the Horseshoe

Located in Moore County near Carthage, on land within a horseshoe bend in the Deep River, this house still bears scars inflicted by a Tory force on August 5, 1781.At the time, the house was owned by Whig Colonel Philip Alston. The Tories were under the command of David Fanning, a notorius Tory leader. Alston and his group were finally forced to surrender. In 1798, the house and surrounding lands were acquired by Governor Benjamin Williams who renamed the plantation "Retreat".Each year, the battle is re-enacted on the grounds of the original battle.

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....Guilford Courthouse Flag...........Guilford Courthouse Battlefield

The battle of Guilford Courthouse, located near Greensboro, NC, was one of the bloodiest of the Revolutionary War. It was here that Militiamen under the command of General Nathanial Greene stopped Lord Cornwallis's advance through the Carolinas. It is estimated that the British lost more than one-quarter of their troops. This defeat for Cornwallis forced him to return towards the sea and was instrumental in causing his final surrender at Yorktown.

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Reed Gold Mine - Cabarrus County

In 1799, twelve-year-old Conrad Reed found a pretty yellow rock in a creek bed. His family used it as a doorstop for almost three years. In1802, a visiting jeweler identified the rock as a 17 pound gold nugget.The next year, John Reed, Conrad's father, opened the Reed gold mine. The first gold rush in the United States began here and was to continue until 1848 when the California gold rush began.

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..Confederate Mass Grave....................Bennett Place..........

......Bentonville Battlefield.......................Durham County..........

 

The "Confederate Last Stand" was fought in North Carolina around Bentonville, a crossroads close to Newton Grove. With the defeat of Joseph E. Johnson's Southern forces by Union troops under the command of William T. Sherman, the stage for surrender had been set. On April 26, 1865, the largest surrender of the Civil War took place at the farmhouse of James and Nancy Bennett (Bennitt) close to the city of Durham.

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