Tuttle Educational State Forest

Gamewell is a town in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 4,051 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Smokey Creek Township is a small township in Burke County, North Carolina, close to the Caldwell County line. As of the 2022 census, the population was 554, of which 99% were white.

West Caldwell High School (WCHS) is a public high school in Lenoir, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Caldwell County Schools district.

Mary's Grove, also known as the Rabb House, is a historic home located at Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina. It was built between 1932 and 1934, and is a two-story, Colonial Revival-style stone house. Also on the property are the contributing stone well-house, silo, and dairy. The buildings were constructed by master stonemasons Leslie (1900-1957), Clarence (1903–1981), and Earl Lyons (1912-1984).The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Markham-Albertson-Stinson Cottage, also known as Stinson's Ranch, was a historic home located at Nags Head, Dare County, North Carolina. It was built about 1916, and was a 1+1⁄2-story, frame, Outer Banks cottage on pilings above the water. It had a wide porch on three sides. It was destroyed by Hurricane Irene in 2011.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

Jacob Forney Jr. House is a historic home located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina, United States. It was built in 1825–1826, and is a two-story, four-bay, Federal-style brick house. It sits on a stone foundation.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

Joara was a large Native American settlement, a regional chiefdom of the Mississippian culture, located in what is now Burke County, North Carolina, about 300 miles from the Atlantic coast in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Joara is notable as a significant archaeological and historic site, where Mississippian culture-era and European artifacts have been found, in addition to an earthwork platform mound and remains of a 16th-century Spanish fort. The first European encounters came in the mid-16th century. In 1540 the party of Spanish conquistador Hernando De Soto recorded visiting this place. A later expedition in 1567 under Juan Pardo, another Spanish explorer, founded the first European settlement in the interior of the continent, establishing Fort San Juan at this site, followed by other forts to the west. It is thought to be the first and the largest of the six forts that Pardo established in his attempt to establish an overland road to the silver mines of Mexico. At the time, the Spanish mistakenly believed that the Appalachian Mountains were the same as a range running through central Mexico. After about eighteen months, all but one of the Spanish troops at the six forts were killed by the indigenous people of the area. Pardo had already left and survived to return to Spain. The Spanish made no other attempts at settlement in this interior. British-related colonization did not begin here until the mid-to late 18th century. In the late 20th century, a Spanish account of the Pardo expedition was rediscovered and newly translated in English. Based on it, excavations were undertaken in this area of Burke County beginning in the 1990s. After discovery of both European and Mississippian artifacts at this site in 2008, on July 22, 2013, archeologists announced having found evidence of the remains of Fort San Juan at Joara, including a moat that cut through an earthwork mound built by the Mississippians.

Fort San Juan was a late 16th-century fort built by the Spanish under the command of conquistador Juan Pardo in the native village of Joara, in what is now Burke County, North Carolina. Used as an outpost for Pardo's expedition into the interior of what was known to the Spaniards as "la Florida", Fort San Juan was the foremost of six forts built and garrisoned by Pardo in modern-day North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee to extend Spain's effective control deeper into the North American continent. Fort San Juan was the first European settlement in North Carolina and the interior of present-day United States, predating the earliest English settlement at Roanoke Island, North Carolina by 18 years. In 1568, natives from Joara and the region surrounding the fort razed this and the five other Spanish forts, killing all but one of the soldiers. After the fort's destruction, its exact location was lost. Archaeological work has been underway for years, revealing artifacts suggestive of Spanish settlement. During the summer of 2013, archaeologists affiliated with the University of Michigan, Tulane University and Warren Wilson College announced that they had discovered evidence of a defensive moat and other remains, definitive evidence of Fort San Juan.

Drexel is a town in Burke County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 1,858 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Bellevue is a historic plantation house located near Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1826, and consists of a two-story, six bay brick structure, with an original one-story wing, in the Federal style. It has a Quaker plan interior.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

Cajah's Mountain is a town in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 2,823 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Hunting Creek Railroad Bridge is a historic stone railroad bridge located at Morganton, Burke County, North Carolina. It was built about 1860, and is a two-span, stone arch bridge. It measures 130 feet long and stands about 24 feet above the creek. It was replaced by another bridge by at least 1890.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.