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Little House Museum & Gallery An Historic Home Exhibit Space in Rolesville, NC. Main St in Rolesville, NC. The museum is currently open on Fridays for small tours by appointment.

On April 1, 2017, Little House Museum & Gallery opened doors to exhibit local history, art and craft in the John Lewis Terrell House, 201 N. Vaccination and masks are required. Call 919-271-0923 to schedule or for more information. The c. 1840 historic Terrell Home Place was purchased in 2012 by Little House LLC, subsequently granted a permit for special use by the Town of Rolesville for the opening of a future Museum & Gallery. The site and main structure required a renovation plan (Matt Hale, Architect) to allow for public use. With its Greek Revival main house, original detached kitchen, smoke house, and c. 1860 Magnolia, this site is located just steps away from Rolesville's historic stage coach crossroads, market square, Baptist Church and Terrell family cemetery. Exploring the history of Wake County's second-oldest town (incorporated in 1837), Little House Museum & Gallery presents local artifacts that trace earliest indigenous inhabitants through town life of the early 20th century. Exhibits introduce visitors to our town founder William Roles and his eventual bankruptcy, early growth along a stage road from 1822-1837, the town’s early Market Square with original stores and slave trade, four generations of the Terrell family, the George Taylor Lynching of 1918, and much more. An adjacent gallery space thematically pairs antique art and craft with contemporary works by local artists. For more information, contact Terry Marcellin-Little, Director at (919) 271-0923 or [email protected]

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10/06/2026

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🏺 Spring 1983, near Hillsborough. UNC archaeologists identify a site on the Eno River where surface finds included European artifacts alongside Indian-made pottery. Test pits held burials with European and Indian-made goods, and dating to the late 1600s or very early 1700s confirmed it as historic Occaneechi Town, known today as the Fredricks site.

Excavation ran from 1983 to 1986. The team mapped a small stockaded village of roughly ten to twelve houses around an open plaza, with a sweat lodge, home to probably fewer than 75 people for about a decade between 1690 and 1710. John Lawson visited in 1701. Grave goods included knives, pipes, hoes, kettles, guns and beads, and people were still making and using stone tools beside European goods. 🔍

By the early 1710s the Occaneechi had moved on, but UNC archaeologists could still read the town through its post holes and objects.

What do you think a plaza and a ring of post holes can still tell us about a town no one photographed?





10/04/2026

Don‘t forget to stop and smell Rolesville’s Roses. Tour the Museum:
Noon, 1pm, 2pm or 3pm on Sunday, Oct 4
Call 919-271-0923 to confirm your visit.

09/20/2026

Sunday 9/20
Museum is open for
tours today at Noon, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm.
Call 919-271-0923. See you soon.

NORTH CAROLINAWhere: Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, Milepost 384When: 8/24/26What: NPCA tabling and advocacy station...
08/22/2026

NORTH CAROLINA

Where: Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, Milepost 384
When: 8/24/26
What: NPCA tabling and advocacy station

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Join NPCA and park supporters across the country on August 25 as we come together – online and in person – to speak out for America’s national parks.

Shoutout to GRCVB for including LHMG in this annual event. In September the museum will resume standard tours on the fir...
08/20/2026

Shoutout to GRCVB for including LHMG in this annual event. In September the museum will resume standard tours on the first and third Sundays of each month. Call 919.271.0923 to plan your visit.

08/02/2026

The museum resumes standard tours Labor Day weekend: 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month at Noon, 1pm, 2pm and 3pm. Call 919-271-0923
to plan a visit.

08/01/2026
05/12/2026

Museum Summer Hours are by appointment only May 15 to July 15:
Text or call 919.271.0923.
We hope to see you soon.

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201 N Main Street, PO Box 239
Rolesville, NC
27571

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+19192710923

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