Cabarrus

Backing Up Classics Motorcar Museum
Backing Up Classics Motorcar Museum collects, exhibits, and interprets classic cars and other motor vehicles, NASCAR memorabilia, automobile memorabilia, and associated material such as advertisements, toys, models, and textiles.

Historic Bost Grist Mill, LLC
Historic Bost Grist Mill, LLC, preserves the Bost Grist Mill structure, dependencies, and many milling artifacts for the education and enjoyment of the public. Historic Bost Grist Mill is a working mill and also sponsors several yearly events highlighting the history of the site, demonstrating agricultural and domestic arts and crafts of the past, and celebrating rural traditions.

Kannapolis History Associates
G I House Museum
The Kannapolis History Associates maintain the restored GI House at its original location of 905 King Street as a permanent memorial to the veterans of all wars. The house is furnished as if it were 1945 with some furnishings original to the house. Photographs of former residents are also on display as are military artifacts.

Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society Museum
The Eastern Cabarrus Historical Society was founded in 1973 to preserve the campus of the old Mt. Pleasant Collegiate Institute. The Society acquired the main school building, now housing the Eastern Cabarrus Historical Museum, and a second building, Society Hall, which is presently being restored. The Museum presently interprets a wide variety of artifacts from Eastern Cabarrus County. Exhibits focus on topics ranging from education in Mt. Pleasant to local Native American life before colonization to regional businesses to domestic farm life and immigration.

Concord Museum, Inc.
The Concord Museum collects, displays, and interprets artifacts, photographs, documents, books, and ephemera pertaining to the history of Concord and Cabarrus County for the education and enjoyment of the public.

Cannon Village Visitor Center
The Cannon Village Visitors Center displays the history of Cannon Mill and its impact on Kannapolis, North Carolina. Exhibits include photographs of the mill and town, a timeline marking significant periods of the textile industry, Cannon Mill advertisements, and Cannon Mill products. Items of interest include textiles from both World Wars. A future installation will focus on Kannapolis native Dale Earnhart and the Earnhart family.

Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site
Reed Gold Mine is the site of the first documented gold find in the United States. A nugget discovered on John Reed's farm in 1799 by his son Conrad Reed began the first gold rush. North Carolina led the nation in gold production until 1848, when the great rush to California eclipsed it. A museum documenting the history of gold production in North Carolina and a library with geology texts and Reed Family genealogy are open to the public. Visitors may participate in gold panning, guided stamp mill demonstrations and mine tours, when conditions permit.

Cabarrus Arts Council
The Cabarrus Arts Council promotes the arts in Cabarrus County by sponsoring programs and providing educational opportunities in both the visual and performing arts. They also maintain a permanent collection of two-dimensional works of art, which is exhibited on a rotating basis in the lobby and offices of the Cabarrus County Government building and in a community center, both in downtown Concord.

Sam Bass Gallery
The Sam Bass Gallery displays original works and prints by Sam Bass, the first officially licensed artist of NASCAR. Exhibited items include early original paintings, NASCAR paintings depicting drivers such as Bobby Allison, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhart, Jeff Gordon, and Tony Stewart, limited edition prints, and a collection of the artist's own rare personal racing mementos such as historical sheet metal, driver helmets, uniforms, and other memorabilia and artifacts.

Cabarrus County Public Library
Local History Room
The Local History Collection in the Lore Room of the Cabarrus County Library mainly consists of materials on Cabarrus County history and genealogy from 1750 to the present. The collection is comprised of genealogy research, books, microfilm, photographs and vertical subject and family files. Limited sources for the neighboring counties of Iredell, Mecklenberg, Rowan, Stanly and Union are available.

Carolinas Boxing Hall of Fame
The Carolinas Boxing Hall of Fame, located in the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, honors amateur boxers and boxing supporters from North Carolina and South Carolina. The Hall of Fame includes photographs, newpaper articles, event advertisements, robes, gloves, shoes and trophies from the inductees and other former boxers.

Cabarrus County Public Library (Kannapolis)
Cabarrus County Public Library Hinson History Room
The Foy and Gertrude Hinson History Room at the Kannapolis Branch of the Cabarrus County Public Library contains some archives of Cannon Mills Company, genealogy information and a growing accumulation of photos, scrapbooks, yearbooks, and assorted historical information pertaining to the Kannapolis area. The collection is comprised of genealogy research, books, microfilm, photographs, and vertical files.

Barber-Scotia College
Sage Memorial Library
The University Archives at Barber-Scotia College collects items documenting the school's history. College catalogs, self-studies, manuals, and school publications comprise the collection. The archive, housed in Sage Memorial Library, also contains items of relevance to Barber-Scotia College.

Roush Fenway Racing Museum
At the museum visitors see Jack Roush's timeline from drag racer to Trans Am Series to NASCAR. The wall graphic showcases significant dates as a car owner, engine builder and innovator. Race vehicles on display include Matt Kenseth's 2003 Winston Cup Championship car, Carl Edward's 2007 #60 Busch Series Championship car and the #26 Irwin car of Jamie McMurray's victory from the July 2007 Daytona race where he won by just .005 seconds. Also on display is Mark Martin's 1999 Busch Series Winn-Dixie Ford in which he scored Roush Racing's 200th win. The facility also includes a 100-seat theater for fans to enjoy some of the greatest video moments in Roush Fenway Racing history.