Preservation Zebulon was awarded a $4,859 Small Project grant from North Carolina Humanities for its planned Zebulon Historic Homes Tour 2025.
With a goal to capture, retain, and highlight its rural history, this grant will support the Historic Homes Tour, scheduled for April 12, 2025. The tour will take place in a newly established historic district of Zebulon and will help transferees buying these homes and area residents engage more with the history and identity of Zebulon.
Grant funding will also support the creation of printed materials including a 12-page brochure describing each historic house on tour with a photo, description of the architectural style, information on early owners, and a map of the tour area. To further tell the story of Zebulon’s creation and history, the tour will also include information about the former Wakelon school site, which taught white students, and the Shepherd school, which was for Black students in Zebulon…