Raleigh

After visiting four museums and one of the largest bars in the world, it was time to leave Raleigh after

Just to continue the theme following my post of the 1797 map of Raleigh. There was a large fire in

I like an old map and this one is from 1797, just five years after the city of Raleigh was

I find the civil rights movement in the United States as a haunting, although fascinating, piece of history, not just

They were certainly creative in North Carolina in finding ways to limit the black population from voting in elections. Although

It still seems remarkable to me that at the turns of the 1960s there was segregation at lunch counters in

There are two menus on display in the museum, the one on the right is from the 1950s and is

Without context, I accept that this isn’t the most riveting display I’ve ever seen in a museum (and there’s a

I was clearly lax in my reading of the history of Raleigh in North Carolina as it wasn’t until I