BUILDING A MIXED-RACE COMMUNITY: The People, Building, and Sites of the Winton Triangle

The paneled traveling exhibit, Building a Mixed Race Community—The People, Building, and Sites of the Winton Triangle will be on display at the Museum of the Albemarle. The exhibit is on loan from Chowan Discovery. The Museum of the Albemarle, a part of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, is an agency of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. 

Marvin Tupper Jones, director of Chowan Discovery, stated that “Before much of our community’s past is forgotten, this extensive, 75-foot-long exhibit allows us to present significant people of the past who contributed much to enrich our community. I hope this exhibit will renew paths of accomplishment that are also important to our futures. Our exhibit is for those who want to remember and learn the best of our Winton Triangle community. We have buildings - some worn or in ruins - that tell stories of a successful community of color that rose through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and supported the Civil Rights movement that provided so many freedoms and opportunities.  Our research brings out the importance of the people connected to these buildings and sites. Our storytelling and photography present that research to the viewer. We hope that people will find new value in the world that immediately surrounds them.”

“Each 20”x30” panel features a main photograph of a building or site, along with text and another image about a significant person or persons associated with the panel. Elders in our community still remember some of the featured people such as Dr. Joseph D. Weaver and Howard Hunter, Sr., but stories of the local founders of C.S. Brown School, the community’s greatest institution, are forgotten.”

This exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will close on February 24, 2027.