Ten Tours: Black History in Wilmington

211 Orange Street,Wilmington NC 28401

07 February, 2021

Description

Intimate tours of Wilmington with specialized themes! Outdoors with limited attendees, it's a safe way to explore & enjoy our historic city! After months at home, Historic Wilmington Foundation is providing a new (and safer!) way to reconnect with our community: Ten Tours! On the first Sunday of each month, local tour guides lead small groups through through specialized tours of our historic downtown, tracing our region’s multi-faceted and diverse storylines through our irreplaceable built history. In honor of Black History Month, February's tour is dedicated to Black history in Wilmington and will be led by Islah Speller, founder of the Burnett-Eaton Museum Foundation and Journey Wilmington’s African American History Tour Guide. Known as the “Sugar Hill Tour,” this route will include sites such as St. Stephens AME Church and the Telfair House. The tour will begin and end at the Burnett-Eaton Museum (410 N 7th Street). Why “Ten Tours”? We want to bring our community together—in a safe and responsible manner. Here’s how: Tours will be limited to 10 attendees. We appreciate and value the intimacy of a small group, the questions and conversations that setting stimulates. Even when outside, masks are required at all times for the group’s safety. (Even your tour guide will be wearing one!) Social distancing will be practiced during the entirety of each tour.These special tours are free, but donations are cheerfully accepted!