Tours

Guided Step-On Bus Tour
Trained Guides lead your group on a 1 - 1 1/2 hour tour through Hillsborough's historic district from the comfort of your own bus or van. The tour also takes visitors to the Commandant's House of the former Hillsborough Military Academy and the old textile mills and mill villages of West Hillsborough.

The step-on bus tour has three options:
• Driving tour - 1 hour tour without any step-off stops along the way
• Burwell School Tour - 1 1/2 hour tour with a twenty-minute visit inside the Burwell School Historic Site, home of an antebellum school for women.
• Museum Tour - 1 1/2 hour tour with a twenty-minute visit inside the Orange County Historical Museum, which features exhibits on Hillborough and the surrounding area.

Ideal for conference attendees, church and senior groups, organizations, and anyone interested in history, gardens, and architecture.

Step-on Bus Tours are available by appointment. Call (919) 732-7741 to arrange a tour. Please have a minimum of 10 participants and give us at least two weeks notice.

Cost:$5.00

Guided Walking Tour
Take a 90-minute walking tour of Hillsborough’s Historic District on one of our 2nd Saturday Guided Walking Tours, offered on the second Saturday of each month at 10am and 2pm.  Cost is $5.

Haunted Hillsborough Tour
A 90-minute tour of Hillsborough’s eerie side. Learn the ghostly stories of unexplained aromas, spirits that walk through walls, and outlandish tales of Hillsborough’s famous, infamous, and not-so-famous citizens. (Scheduled for October, around Halloween)

Revolutionary War Tour
A 90-minute tour of Historic Hillsborough’s colonial and Revolutionary War era sites. Explore the events leading to and surrounding the War of Independence. (Scheduled for February and September)

Civil War Tour
A 90-minute tour focused on the Southern home front experience in Hillsborough during the Civil War. A journey through the lives of women, children, slaves, and refugees during the conflict. (Scheduled for April)

Self-Guided Walking Tour
Purchase a self guided walking tour booklet from the Visitors Center, 150 E. King Street, for $3.

All tours begin and end at the Alexander Dickson House (Orange County Visitors Center at 150 E. King Street).