We will be closing for the winter starting on December 13th and reopen on March 31st for tours except for a group of 4 or more. Since we keep limited hours during this period, you can schedule your tour through info@historichope.org. We request that you provide us with a 3-day advanced notice.
Oyster Roast
Come on out and join Historic Hope and Vic Thompson for our Oyster Roast on Saturday, January 21st from 5:00 – 8:00 pm. The cost is $65 per person which includes Oysters, Shrimp, Heavy Hors d’oeuvres, Wine, Beer, and More. Tickets are selling fast and RSVP no later than Friday, January 13th.
Genealogy Registration Card
“Looking for Our People”
Family History and Genealogy Fair
Friday, July 27 and Saturday, July 28, 2012
Major Sessions:
Ancestral DNA: Making New Family Connections – Jennifer Sheppard
Bertie Family Connections: Baptist Records and the Gilmer Maps of the Civil War – Mary Audrey Mitchell Apple
Family Connections in Central Bertie County North Carolina – Richard White and others
How to Use the Bertie County Clerk of Superior Court Resources – John C.P. Tyler
How to Use County Registers of Deed Office and Resources – Belinda S. White
$40.00/person for one day
$55.00/person for both days
For more details call us at 252-794-3140 or email us at info@hopeplantation.org.
16th Annual Elizabeth Stevenson Ives Lecture
Un/Dis/ReCovering the Past: Historical Archaeology in Northeastern North Carolina
April 14 2012 at the Roanoke-Chowan Visitor’s Center
$35.00 adults | $25.00 students with valid ids
9:30 am
Registration and coffee
10:00am
Welcome: Triumph and Tragedy: The African-American Past in the Archaeological Record
Garrett R. Fesler, Ph.D.
Dr. Fesler is a partner and a Senior Archaeologist/Principal Investigator in The James River Institute for Archaeology and he has more than 19 years of experience in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina working on historic and prehistoric archaeological sites
11:00 a.m.
Traditions in African American Archaeology
Anna Agbe-Davies, Ph.D.
Anna Agbe-Davies teaches in the anthropology department at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is an historical archaeologist with research interests in the plantation societies of the colonial southeastern U.S. and Caribbean, as well as towns and cities of the 19th and 20th century Midwest, with a particular focus on the African diaspora.
11:45 a.m.
Refreshment Break
12:00 pm
Forgotten Wharves: Preliminary Findings at the Bowling Farm Site, 001CSR, Bertie County, NC
Theresa Hicks and Becky Bowling
1:00 p.m.
Exploring the Sea’s Mysteries: A Glimpse at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project
Shanna Daniel
Shanna Daniel is Curator of the Queen Anne Revenge Project
2:00 p.m.
Lunch and tours of the buildings on the Hope campus
