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Specialty Museum Attractions In North Carolina

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North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. It borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh, which along with Durham and Chapel Hill is home to the largest research park in the United States . The most populous municipality is Charlotte, which is the third largest banking center in the United States after New York City and San Francisco.The state has a wide range of elevations, from sea le...
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Specialty Museum Attractions In North Carolina

  • 2. Hatteras Island Ocean Center Hatteras
    Cape Hatteras Light is a lighthouse located on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks in the town of Buxton, North Carolina and is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The Outer Banks are a group of barrier islands on the North Carolina coast that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the coastal sounds and inlets. Atlantic currents in this area made for excellent travel for ships, except in the area of Diamond Shoals, just offshore at Cape Hatteras. Nearby, the warm Gulf Stream ocean current collides with the colder Labrador Current, creating ideal conditions for powerful ocean storms and sea swells. The large number of ships that ran aground because of these shifting sandbars gave this area the nickname Graveyard of the Atlantic. It also led Congress to authorize the construction of the C...
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  • 3. Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Bryson City
    The Great Smoky Mountains Railroad is a freight and heritage railroad in Western North Carolina.
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  • 5. International Civil Rights Center & Museum Greensboro
    The International Civil Rights Center & Museum is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Its building formerly housed the Woolworth's, the site of a non-violent protest in the civil rights movement. Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University started the Greensboro sit-ins at a whites only lunch counter on February 1, 1960. The four students were Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. , and David Richmond. The next day there were twenty students. The aim of the museum's founders is to ensure that history remembers the actions of the A&T Four, those who joined them in the daily Woolworth's sit-ins, and others around the country who took part in sit-ins and in the civil rights movement. The Museum is currently supported by earned adm...
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  • 6. Museum of the Cherokee Indian Cherokee
    The Cherokee Heritage Center is a non-profit historical society and museum campus that seeks to preserve the historical and cultural artifacts, language, and traditional crafts of the Cherokee. The Heritage center also hosts the central genealogy database and genealogy research center for the Cherokee People. The Heritage Center is located on the site of the mid-19th century Cherokee Seminary building in Park Hill, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tahlequah, and was constructed near the old structure. It is a unit of the Cherokee National Historical Society and is sponsored by the Cherokee Nation, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, and other area tribes. The center was originally known as Tsa-La-Gi but is now known as the Cherokee Heritage Center.
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  • 7. North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport Southport
    The North Carolina Maritime Museum is a system of regional museums within the North Carolina Museum of History, which is turn part of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. There are several branches of the Maritime Museum located in Beaufort, Southport and Hatteras.
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  • 8. Ingram Planetarium Sunset Beach
    Ingram Planetarium is a planetarium located at Sunset Beach in Brunswick County, North Carolina. The Board of Trustees of the Ocean Isle Museum Foundation, Inc. is the governing body of Ingram Planetarium as well as the Museum of Coastal Carolina, located at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina.
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  • 9. High Point Museum High Point
    High Point is a city located in the Piedmont Triad region of the state of North Carolina. Most of the city is located in Guilford County, with portions spilling into neighboring Randolph, Davidson, and Forsyth counties. High Point is North Carolina's only city that extends into four counties. As of the 2010 census the city had a total population of 104,371, with an estimated population of 108,629 in 2014. High Point is currently the ninth-largest municipality in North Carolina, and the 259th largest city in America. High Point is known for its furniture, textiles, and bus manufacturing. The city is sometimes referred to as the Home Furnishings Capital of the World. The city's official slogan is North Carolina's International City due to the semi-annual High Point Furniture Market that attr...
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  • 10. The Right Track Toy Train Museum Lake Lure
    This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by , officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can help establish a civic identity, help outsiders recognize a community, attract people to a community because of its nickname, promote civic pride, and build community unity. Nicknames and slogans that successfully create a new community ideology or myth are also believed to have economic value. This value is difficult to measure, but there are anecdotal reports of cities that have achieved substantial economic benefits by branding themselves by adopting new slogans.In 2005 the consultancy Tagline Guru conducted a small...
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  • 11. Historic Edenton State Historic Site Edenton
    Fort Raleigh National Historic Site preserves the location of Roanoke Colony, the first English settlement in the present-day United States. The site was preserved for its national significance in relation to the founding of the first English settlement in North America in 1587. The colony, which was promoted and backed by entrepreneurs led by Englishman Sir Walter Raleigh , failed sometime between 1587 and 1590 when supply ships failed to arrive on time. When next visited, the settlement was abandoned with no survivors found. The fate of the Lost Colony remains a mystery. The historic site is off U.S. Highway 64 on the north end of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, about 3 miles north of the town of Manteo. The visitor center's museum contains exhibits about the history of the English exped...
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  • 12. Southern Highland Craft Guild Folk Art Center Asheville
    Southern Highland Craft Guild is a guild craft organization that has partnered with the National Park Service for over fifty years. The Guild represents over 1000 craftspeople in 293 counties of 9 southeastern states. It operates four retail craft shops and two annual craft expositions which represents the Guild members' work. These expositions occur in July and October and has been an event in the Appalachian mountain region since 1948.
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  • 13. JR Motorsports Mooresville
    JR Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the Xfinity Series. The team is based in Mooresville, North Carolina, co-owned by former Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., his sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller, and the owner of his former Cup ride, Rick Hendrick. The team currently fields four full-time entries in the Xfinity Series: the No. 1 Chevrolet Camaro full-time for Elliott Sadler, No. 5 Camaro full-time for Michael Annett, the No. 7 Camaro full-time for Justin Allgaier, the No. 9 Camaro full-time for Tyler Reddick, and the No. 88 Camaro part-time for Chase Elliott and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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