The Historic Preservation Trades program at Edgecombe Community College (ECC) began in fall 2008 with a daylong event that included demontrations by preservation specialists. Since then, the courses have attracted participants from across the state and out-of-state. No other community college in North Carolina offers a training program in preservation-related building trades. 

Edgecombe offers a continuing-education certificate program in Historic Preservation Trades that requires six courses. Classes are offered each semester and are held at historic sites in Edgecombe County or on the campus of ECC in Tarboro.  Beginning in the spring 2010 semester, the college will also offer a two-year associate degree and one-year diploma in Historic Preservation Technology.

Learn more about ECC's preservation program here.

ECC Preservation Program Expands (6/2009)

ECC Receives Golden LEAF Grant (1/2009)