Rocky Mount Museum and Living History Site sits at the foot of the beautiful Appalachian Mountains. A visit to the site will include several components starting with a visit to the Massengill Overmountain Museum. Museum highlights include various artifacts from on-site digs. After a stroll through the museum it is time to view the orientation video.
Now head to the historic site and back to the year 1791. Costumed interpreters take visitors through the historic buildings and give them a personal look at colonial living. These interpreters portray Cobb family members, neighbors, and servants. They invite visitors to join them as a guest in the Cobb house. In the house visitors will view such treasures as the Richard Midgley clock and hear stories about the Cobb family, Governor Blount, Indian affairs, and the latest gossip of the territory.
A visit to the historic kitchen is next. Interpreters demonstrate eighteenth century cooking techniques and tools. Some even get to taste fine dishes such as gingerbread or sausage muffins cooked over an open fire. Leaving the kitchen be sure to visit the garden. This garden includes medicinal, culinary, and dye plants that were often used in 1791.
The last building to visit is the weaving cabin. In this cabin visitors learn about flax and wool processing by watching interpreters demonstrate these techniques.
Now the visitors are free to roam the historic site. There may be an interpreter at the blacksmith shop or elsewhere practicing their trade. In the spring and summer guests may take a tour of the heirloom garden and learn about the vegetables of yesteryear. Anytime of year visitors can go to the barn and see the sheep.
We invite folks to come and experience history, to see for themselves the daily life of a frontier family.
A typical
tour of Rocky Mount Museum will last between 45 minutes and an hour and
a half.