Mifflin Farm, a 79-acre site in Wrightsville, has a lot of history. The Farm includes the Mifflin House, which housed ...

Highly secretive and illegal during its era, there are very few remnants of the Underground Railroad in North Carolina. However, if you're looking to find clues to its past, one of the best places ...

A new program aims to help municipalities and economic development organizations take steps toward acquiring land for new ...

Despite being born and raised in the slave state of North Carolina, Coffin was an adamant opponent of slavery. In 1826 he and his wife welcomed to their home and aided their first fugitives.

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...