Built upon the foundation of the old jail, the Burgwin-Wright House was built in 1770 by John Burgwin, a planter, merchant, and treasurer of the colony of Carolina. It was occupied by Lord Cornwallis shortly before his defeat at Yorktown. In 1799, the house was...

The Latimer House, built in 1852 by local merchant Zebulon Latimer, has housed the Historical Society since 1963 and is currently open to the public as a house museum exemplary of upper-class life in Wilmington during the Victorian period. With 14 rooms containing...

One of the oldest existing peanut plantations in North Carolina , Poplar Grove Plantation was in the same family for over 6 generations.  The Foys originally purchased the land in 1795 and kept it until the mid 1970’s. Poplar Grove Plantation preserves the...

The Orton Plantation is a historic Southern plantation in the Smithville Township of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Built in 1735 by the co-founder of Brunswick Town, the Orton Plantation house is one of the oldest structures in Brunswick County....

In 1934, Penderlea Homestead Farms was one of the first homestead projects developed during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Program. It helped members of the farming community who were suffering from bankruptcy and unemployment to make a living and...

Guided tour of the Kenan family ancestral home, a restored Southern plantation of the 1800s. Eleven rooms, 12 dependencies including garden shop, wine cellar, carriage house, servants quarters, chicken house, smokehouse, overseer's cottage, woodshed, tool house, wash...

Built in the 1850s by Dr. Buckner Lanier Hill, Buckner Hill Plantation is one of the largest plantation houses in North Carolina. It is still surrounded by "hundreds of acres of cotton corn tobacco and cattle, provides a rare view of original, mostly undisturbed...

Two centuries ago, the Foscue Plantation sprawled over 10,000 acres. It must have been a grand sight with its planted fields, out buildings, magnificent owner’s house, and water access to shipping provided by the dark, slow moving Trent River. The Foscue Plantation...

North Carolina's first capitol—where governors ruled, legislators debated, and George Washington danced. Meticulously reconstructed in the 1950's, the original Tryon Palace was built between 1767 and 1770 for colonial Governor Tryon as the first permanent capitol...

The BHA is a private, non-profit, membership and volunteer based organization founded in 1960 by a group of Carteret County citizens without the aid of grants and public funds. The organization owns and operates the Beaufort Historic Site, which depicts 18th and 19th...