Historic sites in North Carolina
Monuments, forts, ruins and memorials standing where they were built. What the record knows is what the page says.
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404 historic sites are published in North Carolina. The list below holds the 167 best-documented.
- Arrowhead Monument
- Robinson Rock House Ruin
- Site of Fort Butler
- Endor Iron Furnance (Civil War Era)
- Balls Creek Campground
- Hippol Castle
- Castle Mont Rouge
- U.S. Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross
- U.S. Coast Guard Grumman HU-16E Albatross
- Ghost Town Village
- HMT Bedfordshire
- Unsung Founders Memorial
- Fort Ocarcoke
- HMT Bedfordshire Crew 1942
- Nuclear Mishap
- Peace Pole
- Trading FordBuilt 1929
- Benjamin Farmer Revolutionary Soldier Monument
- Confederate Hospital
- Stone Knoll
- River Oaks Academy Birthday Rock
- Knightdale Veterans Memorial
- Burnside's Expedition Crossing Hatteras Bar
- Pea Island Life Savers
- Otway Burns
- Imperial Memoerial
- Crash Site of Eastern Flight 212
- Cabarrus County Confederate Soldiers Monument
- Vaughn-Woltz Order of the Arrow Campfire Arena Time Capsule
- Furr Elementary School Spirit Rock
- John W. Lambeth StatueBuilt 1952
- Arhelger Memorial
- Colonel Jack Martin Rock House
- Laura Foster Memorial1 m
- Fort Clark
- William Ewen Shipp Monument
- Junaluska MemorialBuilt 1910
- Jackson County Armed Forces MemorialBuilt 1986-05-25
- Crouse's Chimney
- Martin Luther King Jr.Built 1980-04-05
- Regulator Monument
- Lucas Family Gristmill Site
- Ezekiel Ezra Smith Memorial
- U.S. Navy Beach Jumpers
- Bonnie Cone Memorial
- UNCG Pedestrian Underpass Pillar
- Original Site of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts
- Confederate Monument
- North Carolina Veterans
- O. Henry
- Beirut Memorial
- Memorial Belltower35 m
- Thomas Koritz Clinic
- Veterns Memorial
- "Carbine" Williams' burial
- Guilford College Woods
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton
- Riverside Cemetery Marker
- Cemetary Bell
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. MemorialBuilt 2007-01-15
- Martin Luther King Jr.Built 1997-04-04
- Oakhurst Men's Club Plaque
- General Davidson Memorial Historic Site
- Andrew Jackson MemorialBuilt 1910
- Nimrod Jarett Smith
- Stoneman's Raid
- Ocracoke Lighthouse
- Regulator Monument
- Battle of Goldsborough Bridge
- Gold Star Families Memorial Monument
- North Carolina Fallen FirefightersBuilt 2006-05-06
- Baron Christopher de Graffenried
- Collapsed Barn
- Founding of Jackson County and Time CapsuleBuilt 1951-09-08
- Jackson County Veterans MemorialBuilt 2007-11-11
- USRC Mercury
- Mill Stones from Old Meters MillBuilt 2004
- Mahatma GandhiBuilt 2008
- Shelton Laurel Massacre
- CCC Lodge Ruins
- Maritime Casualties of the American Civil War
- McIntyre Skirmish
- Historic Dam Site
- Pinetops War Memorial
- Flagship USS Minnesota
- Regulators Hanged
- 9/11 World Trade Center Beam
- West Cabarrus HS Spirit Rock
- Washington Street Historic District
- Trees Plaque
- Nona Ingram Welborn Memorial ParkBuilt 1969-11-11
- Veteran's Memorial
- America's 1st Attempt at Civil War ReunificationBuilt 1861-08-30
- Joyce Kilmer Memorial
- Marion Veteran Memorial
- Jeter C. Pritchard Historical Marker
- Early History
- African American Soldier Gold Star
- Confederate States Navy Yard Marker
- Thomas Lloyd Marker
- Fallen Heroes Memorial
- USRC Diligence
- HRHS Spirit Rock
- Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site
- Ferin Fire Tower
- Memorial Flag
- Air Midwest Flight 5481 Memorial
- Confederate Soldier Monument
- Overlook Castle
- Monument to Cornelius HarnettBuilt 1907-05-02
- Murfreesboro Veterans War Monument
- Mirlo Rescue
- American Veterans Post 240Built 1987
- Unity Monument
- General Theophilus Hunter Holmes Confederate Memorial
- Charters of Freedom Monument
- Cone Brothers
- Onslow County Public Safety Memorial
- The Bunkum Stone
- Edgeworth Female Seminary
- High Point Veterans' Memorial
- Long Island N.C.Built 1965
- Edmund Fanning
- Swain County War Dead Memorial
- Richard Ray Flags
- CCC Ruins
- Howitzer
- The Genesis Monument
- Camp Stokes
- Morris Field
- Camp Greene Memorial
- Jane Parks McDowell Marker
- Montford Point Marine Memorial
- Veterans Garden of Honor
- World War II Honor Roll,
- Tryon Resolves
- McLaughlin
- Martin Luther King Jr.Built 1994-12-03
- U.S.C.G.C. Pamlico
- Historic Town Limits
- Mecklenburg County Confederate Soldiers Monument
- Archer Lodge Veterans Memorial
- CCC Ruins
- Rhodes Drive
- Dr. L. Julian Haywood
- Earth Day 2011Built 2011
- Billy Strayhorn
- Kenan Memorial FountainBuilt 1921
- Anne Penland
- Gold Star Families Memorial Monument
- Sunset Hills Centennial
- Mecklenburg County WWII Memorial
- Martin Luther King Jr.Built 2007-08-25
- Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church
- Revolutionary War Patriots
- Wright Brother's Shed
- New Hanover County War Memorial
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial
- LT. Robert Maynard
- Private George Rabb Confederate Memorial Park
- Daniels Chapel
- Rollins Mill
- Alexandriana Historic Site
- Caleb Bradham
- St. Anges Hospital
- Liberty Hall Monument
- Young Men's Institute