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The 160th anniversary reenactment of the Battle of Bentonville will take place March 15-16, 2025. Tickets for the event, “A Terrible Storm,” are now on sale.
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources has been awarded a $100,000 Battlefield Restoration grant from the National Park Service to produce a Cultural Landscape Report (CLR) to guide the restoration of key portions of the Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site in Johnston County.
The North Carolina State Capitol will reopen to the public on Monday, July 8, following the completion of a major construction and restoration project.
The sound of cannonfire during the Battle of Bentonville, it was said, boomed with a distinct echo.“The din of battle roared like one continuous peel of heavy thunder,” wrote one eyewitness.On Saturday, June 22, Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site will recreate some of that noise during its “Heavy Thunder: Summer Artillery and Infantry Program.”
The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology (OSA) is completing two projects supported by Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF) grant, money appropriated by Congress in response to hurricanes Florence and Michael in 2018 and administered by the National Park Service. These projects sought to identify resources and communities impacted by the 2018 hurricanes that are at risk of damage from future storm events. The two OSA ESHPF research projects occurred on state-owned and managed lands along the coast including Hammocks Beach State Park.
The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology (OSA) is completing two projects supported by Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF) grant money appropriated by Congress in response to Hurricanes Florence and Michael in 2018 and administered by the National Park Service. These projects sought to identify resources and communities impacted by the 2018 hurricanes that are at risk of damage from future storm events. The two OSA ESHPF research projects occurred on state-owned and managed lands along the coast including Hammocks Beach State Park.
An American Indian tribe linked to settlements along the Eno River in central North Carolina soon will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.
A pair of beach resorts for Black families organized in North Carolina before desegregation will be recognized with a North Carolina Highway Historical Marker.Seabreeze and Freeman Beach were two pioneering beach resorts established in New Hanover County in 1922 and 1951, respectively. Closely related to each other geographically, and consequently considered by some to be the same, they provided summertime leisure for thousands of Black visitors from North Carolina and other parts of the country during the Jim Crow era, when beach resorts were racially segregated.
Following a triumphant first year, the Moonshine and Motorsports Trail in North Carolina is expanding.The Moonshine and Motorsports Trail, conceived in the 2021 state budget and launched in 2023 by the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR), is adding nine new sites that will highlight the state’s unique, intertwined history of distilling and stock car racing.
The North Carolina Civil Rights Trail is pleased to announce the opening of its sixth cycle of applications for its trail markers.