Stagville Plantation and Horton Grove
From the late 18th to the mid-20th centuries, Durham’s Stagville plantation was owned by the Bennehan and Cameron families, who enslaved over 900...
Franklin Pierce Homestead
Built by his father in 1804, Franklin Pierce lived in the Homestead from his infancy to his marriage in 1834. Pierce would go on to become the 14th...
Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site
This site is a reconstruction of where Abraham Lincoln lived in his early adulthood, where he split rails, enlisted in the Black Hawk War, and was...
Old Town Hall Museum/ Enfield Historical Society
Beginning service in 1775, the Old Town Hall served as the third meeting house for the First Ecclesiastical Society. After the start of the Revolution...
Thomas Clarke House
Battlefield's Continuing Legacy The Thomas Clarke House, built in 1772, was originally the center of a 200-acre Quaker farm but became a pivotal site...
St. Stephen AME Church
St. Stephen African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church has deep roots in Wilmington’s enslaved and free African American community.