Cultural and Community Activities

February

A Taste of History

April

Easter Fish Fry

June

Basketball Camp Youth Summit
Blue Jay Community Center

June - July

Special Events
Check with Blue Jay Community Center

August

Classic Car Show
Barbecue Chicken Contest

September

Fall Harvest Festival
US Colored Troops Encampment

November

Tuscarora Pow Wow
“Gathering of Iroquois Nations”

PLACES OF INTEREST

Take the Historic Tour of Indian Woods which winds along Indian Woods road to Grabtown and Saint Francis roads which curve through Southern Bertie County. As you travel through this wonderfully beautiful landscape, you will see over 500 years of North Carolina and American history in a way you have never seen and experienced before. You will experience the ancient homeland and burial sites of the Historie Tuscarora Nation members of the powerful Six Nations Confederacy that dates to before 800 A.D. You will see the home of the first Indian agent after the Tuscarora were defeated in the Tuscarora War and moved on to the Indian Woods Reservation in 1717. You can walk the forest, canoe and kayak the creeks of this extraordinary landscape while learning what it means to be a North Carolinian and an American. You will see the ancient forest the beautiful plantations cut from those forest by Tuscarora, African and mixed-race slaves in the 1700s and 1800s. You will see the beautiful Antebellum homes, slave cabins, and overseer’s homes that gave way to today’s farms.

You will learn about the numerous (USCTs) United States Colored Troops, who fought for their and their family’s freedom all over North Carolina and Virgina and the south returning home to build their historic community churches. By the early 20th Century, they would help fund and build a number of Rosenwald Schools to educate their children and prepare them to attend Colleges and Universities and lead productive lives. You will learn about the lives of both tenant farmers and land owners and how they worked their land together and by doing so built the wonderful historic community that it is today. Conclude your visit by experiencing the Blue Jay Recreation Center and its History Museum and view the community’s fire trucks at the Blue Jay Volunteer Fire Department. So come experience North Carolina and American History by traveling through

Tuscarora Heritage

Colonial Heritage

Antebellum & Civil War Heritage

20th Century Community Heritage

Maritime Heritage

Animals (Domesticated and Wild)

Nature Trials and Unspoiled land

Nearby Historic Sites

Scroll to Top