Haywood

World Methodist Council
World Methodist Museum
The World Methodist Museum offers the largest exhibit in the world chronicling the story of Methodism's early beginnings, the life of John Wesley, and the general history of Methodist movements internationally. Collections include Staffordshire pottery, other Wesleyana, Methodist primitives, commemoratives, portraits, original manuscripts, autographs, and other documents, a complete set of the published works of John Wesley, and the personal library of Bishop William Cannon. The museum is open for research and for the enjoyment of the public. Women in Methodism is the theme for 2008, which includes a special exhibit. Frontier Methodism in America will be the theme for 2009.

Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts in the Shelton House
The Shelton House was built in 1875 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Housed in and around the Shelton House, the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts features comprehensive exhibits of 19th Century crafts including hand-woven coverlets, quilts, sculptured porcelain, dulcimers, masterpieces of pottery work and furniture and a fine collection of southeastern and southwestern Native American artifacts. Artists who have participated in the North Carolina State Fair's Village of Yesterday also have a selection of their crafts displayed.

Town of Canton
Canton Area Historical Museum
The Canton Area Historical Museum collects, preserves and interprets the material culture on or relating to the history of Canton and Eastern Haywood County. Particular emphasis is placed on agricultural and industrial heritage. Exhibits feature local citizens, Champion Paper Mill, local schools and industries. Programs and special traveling exhibits are also found at the museum.

Haywood County Genealogical Society, Inc.
Haywood County Genealogical Society Resource Center
The Haywood County Genealogical Society facilitates the study of genealogy and local history through its services at the Resources Center. The center, open by appointment only, makes genealogy books, family records, ancestry charts, microfilm and research materials available to society members and researchers. The society also encourages the preservation of family and court records and supports education programming regarding genealogy, preservation and local history.

Haywood County Public Library
North Carolina Room
The North Carolina Room at the Haywood County Public Library makes available to local citizens and researchers materials on local history and genealogy. Books, microfilm, manuscripts, photographs, vertical files and audio-visual material comprise the collection. Mountain folk life is predominantly featured in the North Carolina Room collection.

Red Barn
Mountain Museum
The Red Barn Mountain Museum seeks to share the history of rural mountain life in the Haywood County area through exhibits and interpretation of artifacts, photographs, and memorabilia from the local region and from local families.

Wheels Through Time All-American Transportation Museum
Wheels Through Time, "The Museum that Runs," seeks to educate the public about the evolution of American transportation, specifically the motorcycle. Exhibits include a collection of over 250 American motorcycles dating from 1903 to the present, an antique automobile collection, and a huge collection of motorcycle and motor vehicle transportation artifacts, photographs, art, and memorabilia.

Southeastern Jurisdiction Commission on Archives and History, United Methodist Church
Southeastern Jurisdiction Commission on Archives and History Heritage Center
The Heritage Center of the Southeastern Jurisdiction Commission on Archives and History, The United Methodist Church, features historic exhibits depicting the history of The United Methodist Church with special emphasis on the Southeastern Jurisdiction and the history of Lake Junaluska Assembly. The archives contain records of the Jurisdiction and Lake Junaluska Assembly, journals and newspapers of the SEJ Annual Conferences, some local church histories and clergy biographical information, books, videos and artifacts. A special portion of our archives it dedicated to the correspondence and other personal papers of Harry Denman.

The Shook Museum at the Shook-Smathers House
This historic house was built in two different periods of our history--circa 1800, and later a large addition/remodeling in the 1890s. Since it contains very little furniture, the House is not like other museum homes. Instead, it is a museum which features early American pioneer construction and architecture. The earlier portion of the structure was built in what was then wilderness--our American frontier. You see the materials and method of construction used by a pioneer settler who pushed westward soon after the American Revolution. You also see the later rustic Victorian construction.