Stanly

Morrow Mountain State Park
Morrow Mountain State Park was opened to the public in the summer of 1939 and is under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Early development of park property was a cooperative effort between state and federal governments. Work crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Work Projects Administration constructed many of the facilities from 1937 to 1942. Additional facilities were added with state funds in the 1950s and 1960s. Today, the park covers 4,742 acres. The Park includes a museum with exhibits about Native Americans, plant and animal communities, early explorers, and rocks and minerals. The Park also interprets the homestead of a 19th-century doctor, Dr. Francis Kron, the first physician in the area. His home, doctor's office and infirmary, and greenhouse were reconstructed in the 1960s and appear today much as they did in 1870.

Stanly County Museum and Visitors Center
Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission
The mission of the Stanly County Historic Preservation Commission is to research, record, conserve, and interpret the history of Stanly County, North Carolina for the benefit of all North Carolinians The Stanly County Museum Visitor Center features a permanent exhibit with more than one hundred historic artifacts retracing Stanly County's ten-thousand year history. The Museum has photographs and records available for research in the Morrow Conference and Research Room. The Museum complex includes two historic houses: the 1852 I.W. Snuggs House and the 1835 Freeman-Marks House. These houses are closed temporarily for renovations.

Pfeiffer University
Mary Fisher Floyd Archives and Special Collections
The University Archives is the official repository of the historically significant records of Pfeiffer University and its predecessor institutions. The Mary Fisher Floyd Special Collections include rare books and manuscripts relating to the school and its history, the Uwharrie-Lakes region of North Carolina, the United Methodist Church, and North Carolina politics.

Stanly County Public Library
Margaret Johnson Heritage Room
The mission of the Stanly County Public Library is to provide enrichment environments where educational, cultural, recreational, and information services and people connect. The Margaret Johnson Heritage room contains works on military history, a wide array of genealogical society journals, periodicals, census records, passenger lists, city directories, maps, and cemetery records. The Heritage Room owns microfilm of local newspapers back to the turn of the century, and contains a vertical file covering many local families. In addition to North Carolina genealogy and history, the Heritage Room also has a collection of Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina sources, plus some Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky sources.

Oakboro Regional Museum of History
The museum interprets the local history of Oakboro with exhibit topics including ancient life on the Rocky River, Native American artifacts and archaeology at the Ledbetter Ford Site, an early 1900 Stanly County map which is hand drawn and lettered, listing farm family lands, and a photo archive celebrating the people, organizations, and times of the area. Materials in the collection cover people of the region, service organizations, churches, schools, rural life and local genealogy.

Norwood Museum