North Carolina Rural Heritage Center — Local services in Laurinburg

Great place for a day trip!! We came to visit the Indian Museum with the Boy Scout Troop 11 out of Goldsboro, NC. We are studying Indian Lore and thought it would be a great place to get started. The Indian section of Museum is excellent. It's a small section in the front of the building. There are artifacts from all around the country to see here. Some of the artifacts are very rare and difficult to see anywhere else. The museum is very carefully curated. There is a phone tour you can take while walking around where you call a number and a guided tour will tell you information about various items as you walk through. The most impressive item to me was the authentic 300 year old dug out canoe they recovered from a swamp and put in the museum. I am only giving four stars on the rating though because while there was a museum attendant on staff, he was not very helpful or attentive while we were there so we were pretty much on our own. So be prepared to look a lot of stuff up on your own or use that phone tour I was just talking about.

The museum has bathrooms, (but they need to be cleaned well, another reason for the four star rating), and is well air conditioned. Everything is well spaced out and easy to walk through. Our troop didn't visit the rest of the museum, but from what I saw it looked impressive. We took the opportunity to visit the John Blue house across the street and if come here to visit,...

A unique example of Steamboat Gothic architecture, the John Blue House provides a glimpse into the past of the rural Carolinas. The home features 12 exterior doors, each with its own stained glass light above. The house has nine fireplaces and rare double circular porches. The surrounding grounds include a grove of pecan trees and a collection of structures that tell the story of a different time in the region. These structures include, three authentic log cabins, a restored pre-Civil War cotton gin, and a restored...

Love to finally getting the chance to go back to the Highland Games wish I could have stayed another weekend and gone to the Cotton Festival haven't seen that in just as long maybe next year I've always had fond memories of the Cotton Festival since I was a kid it's a lot of fun it's always been pretty good way of learning some history and buying some neat crafts and...