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…

Many Raleigh landmarks reflect the achievement, culture, and struggle of the city’s African American population. The oldest date to the nineteenth century. Estey Hall, built in 1874 at Shaw…

Raleigh expands by leaps and bounds with suburban development and the growth of the transportation infrastructure Waves of suburban development forced the physical expansion of Raleigh throughout…

Health care is a major industry in twenty-first century Raleigh, so it is odd to recall that there were no hospitals and few doctors here in the early nineteenth century. White physicians generally…