Featured Tours: 5
Capitol Square Historic District Tour
Developed from 1792 through 1950s
Two centuries of Raleigh's history are represented in the architecture of the Capitol Square Historic District
The most prominent building in the Capitol…
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Historic Capital City Trail
The Capital City Trail, established in 1963, was a heritage trail highlighting 45 sites around central Raleigh. A printed guide mapped the properties, gave a thumbnail history of each, and suggested a…
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Historic Method
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…
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Medical Care in Raleigh
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…
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Oberlin Village
Oberlin originated as a freedman’s village, established by blacks after Emancipation. Oral tradition holds that some purchased land from whites as early as the 1860s, others were given land by the…
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