National Historic Landmark -Fort Fisher

National Historic Landmark -Fort Fisher

An earthen Confederate stronghold which created an impassable barrier for the blockading Union fleet.

Its fall, in January 1865, helped spell the collapse of the Confederacy.

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National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

On 15 March, 1781 the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene at Guildford Court House in one of the most intense battles of the Revolutionary War.

The victory cost Cornwallis over one-fourth of ...

National Historic Landmark -Hayes Plantation

National Historic Landmark -Hayes Plantation

This imposing plantation house, dating from 1814-1817 and designed by William Nichols, is one of the South's most accomplished examples of a five-part Palladian villa.

The frame building's central block is connected to dependencies connected by ...

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

Residence (1829-49) of Helper, author of THE IMPENDING CRISIS (1857), a book which condemned the institution of slavery for economic, though not moral, reasons.

The publication was used for political purposes by the Republicans ...

National Historic Landmark -Market House

National Historic Landmark -Market House

Built in 1838, this structure is unique in that it is one of the few structures in America which employs the town hall-market scheme found in England.

Meat and produce were sold under the open first-floor arcade ...

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

Built by Francis Nash, Revolutionary War hero and general.

Home, from 1782 until his death in 1790, of William Hooper, a signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina and a delegate to the ...

National Historic Landmark-N C Mutual Life Insurance Building

National Historic Landmark - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

Built in 1921, this building was the second home office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was founded in 1898.

This company evolved out of a ...

National Historic Landmark -USS North Carolina (BB-55)

National Historic Landmark -NORTH CAROLINA, USS (Battleship)

First and namesake of a modern class of American battleships built just prior to World War II, USS NORTH CAROLINA set a standard for new shipbuilding technology that combined high speeds with powerful armament.

Her ...

National Historic Landmark -Menoken Indian Village Site

National Historic Landmark -Menoken Indian Village Site

This site shows certain structural and artifactual similarities to historic and prehistoric earthlodge villages along the Upper Missouri River.

Archaeological research in 1998-1999 demonstrates conclusively that this village was occupied during the early AD ...

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

By 1500 A.D., the Middle Missouri agricultural villages were the principal focus for social organization of Mandan people, who had developed extensive trading networks over the previous 200 years.

The Huff Village is one ...