• Food
    • Recipes
    • Restaurants
    • Supper Club
    • A Taste of Our State
  • Travel
    • Tar Heel Towns
    • Travel Guides
    • Streets with a Story
    • Murphy to Manteo
    • Quirky Detours
    • Carolina Calendar
    • Our State Trips & Events
  • Living in NC
    • From Elizabeth Hudson
    • Ramblin’ Man
    • Photo Essay
    • Features
    • Arts & Culture
    • Home & Garden
    • History
    • NC Icons
  • Videos
    • From Elizabeth
    • Supper Club
    • North Carolina, Naturally
    • Hidden History
    • Book Club With Wiley Cash
    • Storytellers Podcast
    • NC Icons
    • Best of Our State on PBS NC
  • Games
    • Crossword
    • Word Search
    • Jigsaw
    • Quiz
  • Newsletters
  • Store
subscribe
  • Manage My Account
  • Our State Trips
  • Carolina Calendar
  • Contests & Promotions
  • Our State Archives
Skip to content
  • Food
    • Recipes
    • Restaurants
    • Supper Club
    • A Taste of Our State
  • Travel
    • Tar Heel Towns
    • Travel Guides
    • Streets with a Story
    • Murphy to Manteo
    • Quirky Detours
    • Carolina Calendar
    • Our State Trips & Events
  • Living in NC
    • From Elizabeth Hudson
    • Ramblin’ Man
    • Photo Essay
    • Features
    • Arts & Culture
    • Home & Garden
    • History
    • NC Icons
  • Videos
    • From Elizabeth
    • Supper Club
    • North Carolina, Naturally
    • Hidden History
    • Book Club With Wiley Cash
    • Storytellers Podcast
    • NC Icons
    • Best of Our State on PBS NC
  • Games
    • Crossword
    • Word Search
    • Jigsaw
    • Quiz
  • Newsletters
  • Store
subscribe

nash county

Our Readers

The Explorer

A Nash County couple traveled across North Carolina with Our State in hand. Now, she continues their adventures with his memory in her heart.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Features

The Medicine Museum

In Nash County, doctors, nurses, and the remedies they once used to heal patients across North Carolina are memorialized in a repository for all things curative.

by Susan Stafford Kelly
Eastern

Bailey Café

In the tiny town of Bailey at Bailey Café, the shelves are full of cakes unlike any others.

by Our State Staff
History

The Story of Hardee’s

Burger chain founder Wilber Hardee abandoned his namesake brand soon after launching it, but he never ventured far from the burger business.

by Jerry Bledsoe
Arts & Culture

Follow the Sound: African American Music Trail

Musical treasures dating back to segregation are there to be discovered in the far-reaching corners of eastern North Carolina. The newly conceived African American Music Trail will help you remember them.

by Karen A. Mann

Subscribe
Our State Travel Club

Get our most popular weekly newsletter: This is NC

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
SEE ALL OUR NEWSLETTERS >

subscribe MANAGE MY ACCOUNT
FOLLOW US
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Games
  • Playlists
  • Sponsored Content
  • Tar Heel Towns
  • Newsletters
  • Our State Archives
  • Our State Store
  • Our State Trips & Events
  • Contests & Promotions
  • Best of Our State on PBS NC
  • Magazine Finder
  • The Story of Our State
  • Contact Us
  • Careers
  • Advertise With Our State
  • Ad Specs
  • Submit an Event
  • Letter to the Editor
  • Reader Comments
  • Contributor Guidelines
  • Reprint / Reuse Policy
  • Privacy Policy

© Our State Magazine 2026, All rights reserved. | Website by Web Publisher PRO