Press release from the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, Western Office:
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – “North Carolina in the Great War” will be on exhibit at the Western Office North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources in Asheville from October 3 to November 18. Hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Special lecture programs will be offered in October and November dates TBD.
North Carolinians contributed to the wartime effort in many ways, ranging from women serving as nurses in military hospitals, to the production of artillery shells in Raleigh and ships in Wilmington. By the end of the war over 480,000 men from North Carolina had registered for service, and thousands of Americans were sent to convalesce in one of western North Carolina’s U.S. Army Hospitals. This traveling exhibit that documents our state’s contributions to the war effort will include photographs and artifacts from several local history museums including the History Museum of Burke County, Museum of Ashe County History and the Presbyterian Heritage Center at Montreat.The Western Office of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is located at 176 Riceville Road, Asheville, N.C. For additional information about the exhibition and lecture programs, please call (828) 296-7230, email jeff.futch@ncdcr.gov, or visit http://www.ncdcr.gov/westernoffice.
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