National Historic Landmark-Wright Bros Visitor Center

National Historic Landmark - Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center

The Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center is one of four nationally significant buildings built by the National Park Service as part of its Mission 66 program.

Highly acclaimed, it became ...

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

Wolfe, a major American novelist, used his boyhood experiences in this rambling frame house in his novels, the first of which was LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL.

Wolfe's mother bought the house in 1906, and he ...

National Historic Landmark - Union Tavern

National Historic Landmark - Union Tavern

Workshop of Thomas Day, early 19th-century free African-American cabinetmaker who achieved recognition for the superior quality of his craftsmanship.

National Historic Landmark - Single Brothers' House

National Historic Landmark - Single Brothers' House

Restored example of Germanic half-timbered construction (1768-86) in the Moravian planned community of Salem.

Used as a trade school for Moravian boys and as a dormitory for master craftsmen, journeymen, and apprentices.

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National Historic Landmark - Salem Tavern

National Historic Landmark - Salem Tavern

The first brick building in Salem, erected in 1784 by the Moravian congregation that established the town.

The Moravians, a devout Germanic people, set about to construct a planned, congregation town in which the church ...

National Historic Landmark - Reed Gold Mine

National Historic Landmark - Reed Gold Mine

Nuggets found here in 1799 set off the first gold rush in the United States.

North Carolina mines furnished much of the gold minted in Philadelphia before 1829.

The mines were largely depleted by 1860.

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National Historic Landmark - Playmakers Theatre

National Historic Landmark - Playmakers Theatre

Completed in 1850, this is a small finely-executed example of the Neoclassical style thought to have been designed by New York architect A.J. Davis.

One of the oldest buildings on the campus of the University ...

National Historic Landmark - Pinehurst Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Pinehurst Historic District

The Pinehurst Historic District, a planned recreational resort community comprises a network of curvilinear roads embracing the village green; late Victorian, Colonial Revival and Bungalow-style hotels, cottages, stores, and churches; golf courses, tennis courts, ...

National Historic Landmark - Cathedral of St. Augustine

St. Augustine Parish, established in 1754, is the oldest Roman Catholic parish in the mainland U.S. The Cathedral is largely a restoration of an 18th-century church.

Information provided by the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park ...

National Historic Landmark - Crystal River Site

Consisting of ten temple, burial, shell, and sand mounds, Crystal River Site is a complex ceremonial center and burial site. Occupation at the site occurred during the Deptford, Weeden Island, and Safety Harbor prehistoric periods. This site has played a ...