Welcome to the Burwell School Historic Site

The Burwell School is a historic house museum located in Hillsborough, NC that preserves and interprets the history of its antebellum and Civil War era residents. The Burwell School Historic Site offers free docent-led and self-guided tours, a variety of cultural events, and engaging and innovative heritage education programs for children and young adults. Learn more about free tours of the school.

Purchase a copy of The Book of Burwell Students or visit the Students section of our website to find out more about the Students of the Burwell School.

The Burwell School Historic Site is a privately owned not for profit organization as recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (a 501(c)3). All of our funding comes from grants and donations from private donors or corporate sponsors. If you would like to support our mission, please donate securely through PayPal. All donations are tax deductible. Thank you for your generous and continued support!

Visit the Burwell School During the 2011 Season

The Burwell School is open Wed.-Sat. 11am-4pm, and Sun. 1-4pm for free docent led tours. Educational programming, special events, site rentals, and more are available per request.

Here is What is Happening at the Burwell School

Hillsborough Literary Association hosts Sally Greene
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 7:00pm

The Hillsborough Literary Association (HLA) will host Sally Greene, J.D., Ph.D., on Wednesday, February 15th at 7:00pm at the Burwell School Historic Site. Greene will read from her work, Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History, which discusses Hillsborough's own Thomas Ruffin, who served as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1833 to 1852, and is considered by many to have been the most brilliant and distinguished jurist in the state's history. Among legal historians, Ruffin is much less kindly regarded for having written the coldest and starkest defense of the brutality of slavery ever to appear in an American judicial opinion: State v. Mann (1829). In tracing the ways in which these two conflicting depictions of the man have come down to us, Greene will explore contemporary questions of the nature and uses of historical memory.

All HLA events are FREE and open to the public and a light reception will follow. For more information, please call 919.732.7451 or email info@burwellschool.org. Reservations are not required, but seating is limited.

THE BURWELL SCHOOL IS A PROUD PARTICIPANT IN THE BLUE STAR MUSEUM PROGRAM WHICH WELCOMES SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES TO OUR SITE FOR TOURS AND PROGRAMMING FREE OF CHARGE. for more information on this program, which is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, please visit Blue Star Museums.

Produced and filmed by our friend, Ernest Dollar.

A special thanks to all who have supported and continue to support the Burwell School Historic Site. We truly appreciate your generosity. Our mission could not be completed without you!

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