- City Lake Park: Selected Photographs
- High Point's City Lake was created in the late 1920s with the construction of a dam across the Deep River. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the federal Civil Works Administration gave $125,000 to build the surrounding park. According to the... View Exhibit Page
- Play Ball!: High Point's Industrial and Commercial Baseball Leagues
- Baseball was very popular in High Point during the decades before World War II. High Point hosted the Piedmont League Pointers from 1920-1932, and Thomasville boasted the North Carolina State League Tommies from 1937 until 1948, when the Tommies beca... View Exhibit Page
- Merry Christmas, High Point!: Christmas Cards from Our Collection
- Gather 'round the computer screen to get in the holiday spririt! Enjoy a selection of nostalgic Christmas cards & postcards donated to the High Point Museum plus one great night-time photograph of the holiday lights on Main Street in 1953 published i... View Exhibit Page
- A Pathway to Opportunity: High Point Normal and Industrial Institute
- During the era of segregation, the High Point Normal and Industrial Institute opened the doors of education to generations of High Point's African American citizens. Thanks to the leadership of principals Alfred J. Griffin and Edward E. Curtright, t... View Exhibit Page
- Founders' Faces: Portraits of High Point's History Makers
- For as long as humans have been human, communities have immortalized individuals with specially commissioned works of art. The art's purpose is to honor men and women who achieved high status or made outstanding contributions to their societies. Du... View Exhibit Page
- The Spirit of Enterprise: High Point's 1923 Pageant of Progress
- High Point's fortunate location at the crossroads of North Carolina's transportation networks contributed to its rapid growth and economic success. In the 1850s, the junction of the Western Plank Road and the North Carolina Railroad became the focus... View Exhibit Page
- The Furniture City Feasts: A Celebration of High Point's Food Culture and History
- The 2013 North Carolina Archives Week theme "Homegrown!" spotlights photographs and other archival materials containing our state's rich food culture and history. Like folks in any city, High Point's citizens regularly feasted together at numerous c... View Exhibit Page
- Melzetta Williams: A Teacher's Recollections
- Enjoy five pages of a scrapbook created by High Point native Melzetta Fowler Adams Williams in the 1930s. Also included in this exhibit are pictures of some of the places she mentions as well as a photograph of Leonard Street School where she taught.... View Exhibit Page
- Out of the Woodwork: Behind the Scenes of High Point's Furniture Industry
- In the fall of 2013, High Point University's "Documenting the Community Through Photography" class chose to go behind the scenes in High Point's furniture factories and at the High Point Market to discover what it takes to bring high-quality furnitur... View Exhibit Page
- High Point Postcards: Downtown, 1900 -1950
- During the building boom of the early 20th Century, an up-and-coming High Point invested in imposing store fronts, office blocks, hotels, and government buildings. These landmark construction projects defined the physical landscape of the city's dow... View Exhibit Page
- Centenary of the War to End All Wars: High Point Men and Women in World War I
- Europe early in the 20th Century was, as Barbara Tuchman states in her landmark book The Guns of August, "a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others." For several decades, a complex syst... View Exhibit Page
- Make Every Week Fire Prevention Week: High Point's Fire Department Leads the Way
- President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed Fire Prevention Week in 1925 to remember the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and over 250 people who died in it. In those early days, city firefighting units were more concerned with being able to extinguish fires effi... View Exhibit Page
- High Point at Play: Health and Leisure in Our City
- Each October, North Carolina celebrates Archives Month. "Archives Month," according to the Society of North Carolina Archivists, "is an annual observance of the agencies and people responsible for maintaining and making available the archival and hi... View Exhibit Page
- 100 Block, South Main Street, High Point: A UNC-Greensboro Class Project
- Students in Dr. Christopher Graham's History of North Carolina Fall 2014 undergraduate class at UNC-Greensboro completed a class project using photographs from the High Point Museum. Students learned about historical research using primary sources an... View Exhibit Page
- High Point's Downtown Movie Theaters
- Please Remain Standing NC Vintage Movie Theaters... View Exhibit Page
- North Main Street: High Point's Commercial Heartland
- The factory district, located south of the railroad tracks, was the economic engine that drove High Point's growth. Above the tracks, on North Main Street, was a showcase of the city's economic prosperity. Shops, banks, offices, restaurants, hotels... View Exhibit Page
- High Point Furniture Market: "The World's Furniture Mart"
- In 1919, an editorial in the High Point Enterprise stated that "High Point aspires to become the foremost furniture market on this continent." That ambition was met, then surpassed. Known over the years as the Southern Furniture Market, the Interna... View Exhibit Page
- Stitches in Time: Tools for Domestic Textile Arts
- The theme of the 2015 North Carolina Archives Month, North Carolina Arts, Crafts, and Music Traditions, reflects upon our state's traditional folkways. "Archives Month," according to the Society of North Carolina Archivists, "is an annual obs... View Exhibit Page
- 52 Weeks of Community Memories, Part 1: High Point Historical Society celebrates 50 years
- In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the High Point Historical Society, The High Point Enterprise published one photograph from the collection each week during 2016 beginning Monday, January 11, 2016. This group was published in January, Februar... View Exhibit Page
- 52 Weeks of Community Memories, Part 2: High Point Historical Society celebrates 50 years
- In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the High Point Historical Society, The High Point Enterprise published one photograph from the collection each week during 2016, beginning Monday, January 11, 2016. This group was published in April, May and... View Exhibit Page
- The Hub of High Point: Southern Railway Passenger Station and Depot Square
- The crossroads community which grew around the intersection of the plank road connecting Fayetteville to Salem and a new railroad connecting Goldsboro to Charlotte became the hub of inns and general stores catering to the passing stage and rail traff... View Exhibit Page
- From High Point to Derby Downs: Soap Box Racing in High Point, N.C.
- Although many of today's youth only know of the event through movies such as The Little Rascals, soap box derby racing was wildly popular during the mid-20th century. A boys only event, participants would, with sponsorships from local busines... View Exhibit Page
- 52 Weeks of Community Memories, Part 3: High Point Historical Society celebrates 50 years
- In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the High Point Historical Society, The High Point Enterprise published one photograph from the collection each week during 2016, beginning Monday, January 11, 2016. This group was published in July, August an... View Exhibit Page
- 52 Weeks of Community Memories, Part 4: High Point Historical Society celebrates 50 years
- In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the High Point Historical Society, The High Point Enterprise published one photograph from the collection each week during 2016, beginning Monday, January 11, 2016. This group was published in October, Novemb... View Exhibit Page
- When Racing Was Racing: High Point Tracks
- Stock car racing has early roots in the greater High Point area and now is North Carolina’s official state sport. In addition to being the home of a number of drivers, two tracks in High Point once held races drawing thousands of spectators. For a nu... View Exhibit Page
- Celebrating a Century of Commerce: The High Point Chamber of Commerce, 1919-2019
- Throughout its 100 years of service, the High Point Chamber of Commerce has steered and cheered city growth. Initially organized to attract industry to High Point, the Chamber has responded to changing needs and enabled its members and community lead... View Exhibit Page