July 21, 2023
Summer excursions: History comes alive in a secret garden in Tarboro
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If you’re a fan of cemeteries and the history they hold, there’s one in Tarboro you must visit. Enclosed in a gothic-style churchyard, graves covered in ivy sit beneath a lush canopy of century-old trees. It can only be described as North Carolina’s very own “Secret Garden.” And that’s not all, just down the street sits the the Colonial-era Town Common dates which back to 1760. In this episode, WRAL Hidden History reporter Heather Leah takes us back in time and unlocks the secrets of Tarboro.
