By Baltimore Sun staff
From Baltimore Sun
Places
North Carolina Black Heritage Trail Experience more than 30 sites and explore the stories that celebrate the contributions of African Americans and their significance in the cultural heritage of Northeast North Carolina. This self-guided, digital heritage trail includes outdoor interpretive signs and monuments, parks, waterways, and museums. Highlights include the Historic Jarvisburg Colored School, Pasquotank River, Pea Island Cookhouse, Colored Union Soldiers Monument, Colonial Waterfront Park, and historic Dismal Swamp Canal. NCBlackHeritageTour.com/experience-the-trail/N.C. Oyster Trail
Oyster farmers, restaurants, markets, and educators invite travelers to indulge and learn along the self-guided N.C. Oyster Trail, which highlights an industry whose colorful history includes a war against out-of-state poachers. Stops extend from the Outer Banks to Bald Head Island with oyster farm tours, exhibits, excursions, and dining with inland markets and restaurants sharing the delicacy with their customers.
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