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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.

Location:
575 Lakeshore Dr.
Lake Junaluska NC 28745
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Mailing Address
PO Box 518
Lake Junaluska NC 28745


Phone: (828) 456-9432
Fax: (828) 456-9433
Contact: Dianne Mills

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.

Location:
49 Shelton Street
Waynesville NC 28786
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Mailing Address
PO Box 145
Waynesville NC 28786


Phone: (828) 452-1551
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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.

Location:
36 Park Street Canton Visitors Center
Canton NC 28716
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Mailing Address
PO Box 136
Canton NC 28716


Phone: (828) 646-3412
Fax: (828) 648-5145
Contact: Gail Guy

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.

Location:
122 S. Main Street Suite D
Waynesville NC 28786
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Mailing Address
PO Box 1331
Waynesville NC 28786


Phone: (828) 452-4306
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Contact: Deborah Garland

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.

Location:
678 South Haywood Street
Waynesville NC 28786
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Mailing Address
678 South Haywood Street
Waynesville NC 28786


Phone: (828) 452-5169
Fax: (828) 452-6746
Contact: Kathy Olsen

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.

Location:
1856 Dellwood Road
Waynesville NC 28786
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Mailing Address
1856 Dellwood Road
Waynesville NC 28786


Phone: (828) 926-1901
Fax:
Contact: Karen Collis

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.

Location:
US 19
Maggie Valley NC 28751
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Mailing Address
P.O. Box 790
Maggie Valley NC 28751


Phone: 828-926-6266
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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.

Location:
710 North Lakeshore Drive
Lake Junaluska NC 28745
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Mailing Address
PO Box 1165
Lake Junaluska NC 28745


Phone: (828) 452-2881,
Fax: (828) 456-4050

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.

Location:
178 Morgan Street
NC 28721
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Mailing Address



Phone: (877) 620-2300
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Contact: Joseph Hall