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Follow this tour to visit and learn about the old cemeteries and burial grounds designated as Raleigh Historic Landmarks.

Method, a southwest Raleigh neighborhood, evolved from a freedman’s village established in the 1870s. It was one of a dozen or so that surrounded the city in the years after Emancipation, when blacks…

A tour of the Raleigh Historic Landmarks (RHL) located in the local Moore Square Historic Overlay District (HOD). Moore Square Historic District is home to Raleigh’s “Black Main Street” and the City…

A tour of the Raleigh Historic Landmarks (RHL) located in the local Blount Street Historic Overlay District (HOD). North Blount Street was Raleigh's most fashionable neighborhood between the Civil War…

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Raleigh Historic is a free mobile app which curates Raleigh's landscape through the use of geo-located historical text and archival images. As the site develops, archival film, oral history and other audio, as well as short documentary videos will be included. Raleigh Historic is available in the iOS App Store and the Google Play Android App Market.