You'll find a wide variety of links on this page. The one thing they all have in common is that they're all about North Carolina. Many of these links provide valuable information about our state for students and others who are thinking about visiting or moving here.

Ackland Online
This is the home site for the Ackland Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ava Gardner Museum
This is the definitive site for fans of the sultry Johnston County native. The Ava Gardner Museum is located in Smithfield, about a 30 minute drive east of Raleigh. There is quite a bit of material available on this site about Gardner's life and work as a Hollywood actress.

Black Mountain Initiative
A beautiful photographic journey through a section of the Appalachian Mountains that includes Mt. Mitchell, the highest mountain east of the Mississippi.

Blue Ridge Parkway Travel Guide
NCNatural's guide to this scenic road offers you a history of the parkway, a mile-by-mile travelogue, a photo gallery, reference guide to hiking trails in the national park that includes the Blue Ridge Parkway and a bloom calendar to help you plan flower-watching trips to the park.

Central Atlantic Storm Investigators – North Carolina
This group of amateur meteorologists is slowly building itself into a worldwide weather tracking resource. The North Carolina site provides information about North Carolina CASI members and where they live.

Climbing in Western North Carolina
North Carolina offers some of the best rock climbing sites in the eastern United States. This site provides all kinds or resources that will help you get a tight grip on your climbing trip to our state.

CurtisK’s Waterfall Page
This site by North Carolinian Curtis Krumel provides a photographic tour of one of the state's more overlooked scenic resources -- its abundant waterfalls.

Duke University Primate Center
Nestled in Duke Forest near Duke University's West Campus in Durham, the Duke University Primate Center conducts research on lemurs - prosimian primates found almost exclusively on the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The center breeds a wide variety of lemurs, which are one of the most endangered animal species in the world. This site will give you information about lemurs, as well as photos of these beautiful animals and tour booking information. The site has a Kids Zone. Be sure and check out the Adopt A Lemur Page as well while you're visiting.

Fish Mojo
This site will help you get in touch with your inner angler. Focusing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Fish Mojo offers an eclectic mix of coastal weather data, tide charts, fishing reports and other material. Be sure and check out the Random Pics page, where every few seconds a new photo of a fisher and his prize catch appears on screen.

Ghost Stories of North Carolina
Speaking of haunting material, creep around this site for chilling accounts of the state’s most famous ghosts. Say, isn’t it time for someone to install a web cam to catch the Maco Light?

Indie-music.com: North Carolina Tour Guide
North Carolina loves its musicians and it has certainly provided far more than its fair share of them to the rest of the world in the last 100 years. This site provides links to independent music organizations across the state, as well as tour schedules for venues in several areas and radio stations that play various forms of indie music and a whole lot more. North Carolina’s independent music scene is one of the best-kept secrets on the East Coast. This site will help you start sampling it.

Jay’s North Carolina Theatre Guide
North Carolina has a strong tradition of support for and involvement in the performing arts, especially at the community level. Jay Enterkin's site offers links to theatrical companies throughout the state.

Music Collections in North Carolina
The Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association provides web links to music collections at universities, colleges and libraries throughout North Carolina.

New River Notes
The New River may actually be one of the oldest existing rivers in the world. The river, which winds through the northwestern corner of the state, is a popular spot for nature lovers. This site has an incredible collection of historical material pertaining to the New River area. While researching this entry we were fascinated, for instance, by a detailed article on famous North Carolina duels cached on the site. There is material included in the site about the areas of Virginia and Tennessee bordering the northwest corner of North Carolina, but much of it covers North Carolina.

North Carolina Archeology
A service of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, this page provides information about archeology in North Carolina on an amazing scale. Among the highlights: on-line reports and summaries of archeological sites throughout the state; links to other state archeological resources; and news about marine archeology in North Carolina, including the search for Queen Anne's Revenge, flag ship of Blackbeard the Pirate.

North Carolina Arts Council
Packed with links to North Carolina art groups, individual artists selected for North Carolina Arts Council Fellowships and the Folk Heritage Award, as well as examples of public art from North Carolina's Artworks for State Buildings collection.

North Carolina Civil War Home Page
This site explores North Carolina's involvement in the Civil War. Information presented here includes a statistical abstract from the 1860 North Carolina Census, a listing of North Carolina units that served in the Confederate and Union armies, as well as biographies of North Carolina military and civilian leaders during the war.

North Carolina Fishing Links
Twag2 has compiled what must be the ultimate collection of North Carolina fishing links. The site covers both fresh and salt-water fishing and information on the state's fishing license fees.

North Carolina Folklore Society
Operating through a Web site provided by Appalachian State University, the North Carolina Folklore Society promotes understanding and appreciation of the state's folk culture, which draws from an amazing variety of other cultures throughout the world. The society's journal is in its 43rd year and is a great resource for anyone interested in North Carolina folkways.

North Carolina GenWeb
An outstanding resource for genealogical research in North Carolina. You can search the available records by county. If you can't find what you're looking for, the site also offers a query database that will allow you to post your request for information for other genealogists to read. The GenWeb Project has sites for other states as well.

North Carolina Humanities Council
The council’s web page has links to literacy programs, teachers institutes and grant information. It also provides a calendar and publications page.

North Carolina: Images and Voices from the Thirties
We’re not sure how long this site will remain up, but we heartily encourage you to visit it while you can. Aletha Andrew and Jen Rawlings, students at UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, have unearthed photographs and biographies of North Carolinians during the Great Depression. This material was originally compiled by the Federal Writers’ Project and the Farm Security Administration. This is a fascinating and haunting look at the daily lives of North Carolinians during the worst economic disorder of the past century.

North Carolina Japan Center
Konnichi wa, y’all! The North Carolina Japan Center at North Carolina State University fosters interactions between our state and Japan. This site has lots of information about Japan and provides Japanese contacts in cities throughout the state.

NC Mat: North Carolina’s Home of Amateur Wrestling
This very thorough site covers high school wrestling throughout the state. Nice design and updated regularly.

North Carolina Museum of Art: Artnet
A very entertaining and educational site. You can examine many works from the gallery’s various holdings. There’s also quite a bit of material for children and teachers.

North Carolina Museum of History
The N.C. Museum of History is located on Capitol Square in Raleigh and features an outstanding array of exhibits that range throughout North Carolina history. The museum does a particularly thorough job exhibiting the state's traditional arts and crafts and putting them into historic context. A very informative Web site and a must-see attraction when visiting Raleigh.

North Carolina Music Hall of Fame
North Carolina's contributions to nearly every known style of modern music (rock, country, bluegrass, blues, jazz, gospel, etc.) is astounding. This site's Ultimate Band List provides short biographies of the many North Carolinians whose musical talent has won them acclaim.

NCNatural
This site bills itself Your North Carolina Outdoors, Entertainment & Culture Guide." It offers seasonal feature pages: Spring focuses on plants and music; Summer covers outdoor recreation and hiking; Autumn features fall colors, wildlife and holidays; Winter offers history and story-telling. A laid-back site with a nice, down-home feel to it.

NC Outdoor Recreation and Active Travel Resources
This site is part of the Great Outdoors Recreation Pages. It provides a directory of popular outdoor recreation spots throughout the state, as well as maps, activity guides, feature stories about outdoor recreation in North Carolina and links to commercial sites that sell maps and other products used by outdoors enthusiasts.

North Carolina Pottery Center Home Page
For connoisseurs of folk art, North Carolina is close to being a paradise. The state's pottery tradition is exceptionally strong and this site is a good starting point for educating yourself about that tradition.

North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation
The SBI is one of the best state law enforcement agencies in the nation. Amateur sleuths will want to check out the site's pages devoted to unsolved crimes, most wanted criminals and missing persons.

North Carolina Tourism
This N.C. Department of Commerce site offers information for tourists packaged with splendid artwork. This may be one of the most beautiful sites you will ever visit on the Web.

North Carolina Web Ring
This is an eclectic group of Web sites ranging from home pages for various North Carolinians to commercial sites for several small businesses scattered throughout the state.

Preservation North Carolina
This site contains a guide to historic sites in North Carolina. You can also cruise a database of historic properties offered for sale by Preservation North Carolina.

Rhine Research Center
This independent non-profit organization is world-renowned for its work in parapsychology research. The site contains quite a bit of material from the Rhine Center, as well as links to other academic and private parapsychology research facilities.

Storytelling of the North Carolina Native Americans
North Carolina has the largest population of Native Americans east of the Mississippi. This site offers interviews with storytellers from the Cherokee, Lumbee and Occaneechi tribes. You can also listen to their stories via audio files stored on the site.

The Andy Griffith Show Home Page
Millions of people still watch re-runs of this series nearly 30 years after it went off the network schedule. Griffith is a North Carolina native and the show is set in fictional Mayberry, North Carolina. This site pretty much covers the waterfront as far as the Andy Griffith Show is concerned. Be sure to check out the Mayberry stats (Just how many times did Barney accidentally fire his pistol?) and the list of Mayberry trivia. Hmmm, wonder if the corner room at the Y now has a modem hook-up?

The Lexington Collection
Barbecue is a serious endeavor in North Carolina. This site catalogs all kinds of recipes, cooking tips, barbecue philosophy and links to other barbecue sites. The Lexington Collection is a member of The Smoke Ring, a linked list of Web sites dedicated to barbecue. If you like this site by Cary's L.D. Lineback, you might want to cruise The Smoke Ring and, uh, pig out.

The North Carolina Collection
The electronic gateway to an exhaustive collection of state historical texts. You can browse a number of indices to view the collection's holdings of biographical clippings, historic photographs and more. Make sure, however, to visit the Documenting of the American South Digital Library. The library contains works by North Carolina authors, providing a wealth of primary sources of state history.

The North Carolina Disaster Center
This commercial site provides links to all kinds of public and private organizations involved in disaster preparedness planning and disaster relief.

The Search Beat North Carolina Web and Internet Guide
Dozens of links to North Carolina-related sites. Includes a list of Top North Carolina Web Sites, but we’re not sure whether that means the sites with the most hits or the sites that are most useful.

Triangle Paranormal Research Society
Something weird in your neighborhood? Who you gonna call? Well, this volunteer group of ghost hunters might be a good place to start. The society is based in the Raleigh-Durham area and investigates reported hauntings throughout the state. The truth is out there!

U.S. Colored Troops Formed in North Carolina
One of the great untold stories in American history is that of African-Americans, many of them former slaves, who risked their lives to serve in the Union Army. This site contains information about several North Carolina regiments of U.S. Colored Troops, along with a list of Congressional Medal of Honor winners and other data.

Weather Underground: North Carolina
A nice way to see which way the wind is blowing from Asheville to Buxton. The site carries current weather data for 14 cities in North Carolina. It also has links to weather in other states and around the world.

Wildflowers of the North Carolina Roadsides
One of the most pleasant parts of traveling by road in North Carolina is the profusion of wildflowers growing next to the highway for miles on end. This site offers searchable databases of each species of wildflower common to the state. You can search by common name or botanical name. Entries also include planting instructions.

Wreck Diving in the Graveyard of the Atlantic
The North Carolina coast has brought many a ship to grief over the last 400 years. That tragic history, however, has turned the entire coast into a wreck diver's nirvana. This site offers detailed descriptions, including photographs, of many of the diveable sites off our coast.