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CORNELIUS Local Information: Visit Lake Norman (See our ad on page 66)
Rockford General Store. Rockford Rd., (336) 374-3825. An original old-fashioned country general store that has been in operation since 1890. www.rockfordgeneralstore.com
Raceworld USA. 20310 Chartwell Center Dr.,
Shelton Vineyards. 286 Cabernet Ln.,
(704) 897-5555. The facility houses three NASCAR Nextel Cup teams and one NASCAR Busch Series team. The significant distinction of this race team shop, however, is that unlike most such shops, fans are invited to tour the facility and see operations that are normally kept behind closed doors. www.raceworldusa.net
(336) 366-4724. Near the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains lie this vineyard and winery of distinction. Tours and tastings are offered throughout the day and visitors can enjoy exploring our scenic grounds. www.sheltonvineyards.com. See Travel Map for location.
DALLAS Local Information: Gaston County T&T Gaston County Museum of Art and History. 131 W. Main St., (704) 922-7681. Housed
in the historic Hoffman Hotel, c. 1852, the museum features authentic furnished period rooms. Carriage house includes the largest public collection of horse-drawn carriages and sleighs in the state. Carolinas Textile Exhibit. www.gastoncountymuseum.org
DOBSON Local Information: Greater Mount Airy C of C (See our ad on page 154) Black Wolf Vineyards. 283 Vineyard Ln., (336) 374-2532. Twenty scenic acres of vineyards set in the north end of the Yadkin River Valley, whose fertile soil is ideal for viticulture. In addition to a visit to our tasting room, guests are invited to explore our grounds, garden and restaurant. www.blackwolfvineyards.com. See Travel Map for location.
Stony Knoll Vineyards. 1485 Stony Knoll Rd., (336) 374-5752. We are lifted high on the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains against a Carolina sun that creates a bouquet of aromatic wonders and pleasures. Stop by and try our wine. www.stonyknollvineyards.com. See Travel Map for location.
DUNN Local Information: Dunn Area TDA Averasboro Civil War Battlefield Museum & Chicora Cemetery. I-95, Exit
71, (910) 891-8019, (910) 892-3282. The Battle of Averasboro was the first deliberate, tactical resistance to the infamous march of Federal forces through Georgia and the Carolinas. Historic markers outline the events of the March 1865 military action that highlights a plantation home used as a Confederate hospital and the Chicora Cemetery where the battle’s dead are buried. General William C. Lee Airborne Museum. 209 W. Divine St., (910) 892-1947.
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500 W. Corporation St., (919) 560-4355. This historic ballpark served as a major film location for the hit movie Bull Durham and was the original home of the Durham Bulls for more than 50 years. It now serves the community as a summer league ball field and hosts the renowned Bull Durham Blues Festival each year. Historic Stagville. 5825 Old Oxford Hwy., (919) 620-0120. State Historic Site features 18th- and 19th-century buildings dedicated to preservation and African-American cultural historic studies. Once among the largest plantation holdings in the South. Barn and original slave quarters at Horton Grove provide insights into plantation life, society and culture. www.historicstagvillefoundation.org Museum of Life and Science.
433 Murray Ave., (919) 220-5429. A 78-acre, 68,000-sq.-ft. regional, interactive science technology center. Includes “Explore the Wild” with black bears, red wolves and lemurs, aerospace exhibit, nature exhibits culminating with the Magic Wings Butterfly House and Bayer CropScience Insectorium. www.ncmls.org
DURHAM
North Carolina Central University Art Museum. 1801 Fayetteville St., (919) 530-6211.
4409 Bennett Memorial Rd., (919) 383-4345. The site where Confederate Gen. Johnston surrendered to Union Gen. Sherman 17 days after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and ended the Civil War in the Carolinas. Reconstructed farmhouse, outbuildings, interpretive center and museum. www.bennettplace.nchistoricsites.org
919/684-5135 www.nasher.duke.edu
Historic Durham Athletic Park.
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. 2001 Campus Dr., (919) 684-5135.
Bennett Place State Historic Site.
El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III. Aug. 21-Nov. 9, 2008. One of the most important Old Master exhibitions ever in the Southeast! More than 100 paintings, sculptures and decorative arts.
St., (919) 683-1709. Hayti was once one of America’s most successful African-American marketplaces and neighborhoods and was named in admiration of the independent island nation. The center features works and artifacts plus exhibitions of traditional and contemporary art by local, regional and national African-American artists. www.hayti.org
Gen. Lee earned the name “Father of the American Airborne” by his relentless lobbying for the formation of Airborne divisions. The museum, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is in Lee’s mansion and traces his personal life and the growth of the airborne divisions.
Local Information: Durham CVB (See our ad on page 144)
Nasher Museum
Hayti Heritage Center. 804 Old Fayetteville
Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum.
2828 Duke Homestead Rd., (919) 477-5498. National Historic landmark features Duke family’s mid-1800s home, tobacco barns and original factory. Museum, film and living history demonstrations of life on a typical yeoman farm in the 1800s. www.dukehomestead.nchistoricsites.org Duke University Chapel. Chapel Dr.,
(919) 684-2572. Neo-Gothic centerpiece of Duke University’s West Campus. Features a 5,200-pipe organ, 210-foot tower housing a 50-bell carillon and intricate stained-glass windows. www.chapel.duke.edu Eno River State Park. 6101 Cole Mill Rd.,
(919) 383-1686. Bird watching, boating/sailing, fishing, hiking, picnic shelter. www.ils.unc.edu/ parkproject/visit/enri/home.html
This 65,767 sq. ft. museum features galleries for Duke’s permanent collections plus sculpture gardens. www.nasher.duke.edu. See our ad on this page.
Collections include paintings, sculptures, prints, African art and artifacts. The museum has temporary exhibitions of African-American art from national, regional and local artists. www.nccu.edu/artmuseum Patterson’s Mill Country Store.
5109 Farrington Rd., (919) 493-8149. An authentic turn-of-the-20th-century country store and doctor’s office/pharmacy. Features collections of mercantile and pharmaceutical Americana and tobacco marketing memorabilia. Sarah P. Duke Gardens. 426 Anderson St., (919) 684-3698, (800) 367-3853. Fifty-five acres and five miles of walks and pathways of landscaped and woodland gardens feature more than 2,000 kinds of plants. Includes Blomquist Garden of Native Plants and Asiatic Arboretum. www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens West Point on the Eno City Park.
5101 N. Roxboro Rd., (919) 471-1623. Features a reconstructed 1778 working gristmill, McCown-Magnum House built in the 1880s, Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography, re-creation of a 19th-century blacksmith shop, hiking trails and amphitheater. Site of Festival for the Eno in early July. Picnicking, hiking, rafting and canoeing. www.durhamnc.gov/ departments/parks/parks.cfm