Experience North Carolina farming culture and history at Duke Homestead’s annual Brightleaf Harvest Day on Saturday, Aug. 22, from 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. In addition to demonstrating the nearly lost art of tobacco looping, site staff and volunteers will show how tobacco is grown and harvested in the field.
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A new digital exhibit from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' Office of Archives and History is now available online.
Fort Dobbs State Historic site will host Historic Trades Day on Saturday, June 20, from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. The site will come to life with the strike of a blacksmith’s hammer, the rasp of a saw, and snip of a tailor’s shears as it did when Fort Dobbs operated between 1755-65. Rather than a military garrison, the fort will bustle with costumed interpreters and professional historic tradespeople demonstrating the many ways people of colonial America made a living. The event is free and open to the public. Fort Dobbs is administered by the Division of State Historic Sites, within the N.C.
The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (DNCR) is pleased to announce that one additional documentation, four new historic districts, and nineteen individual properties across the state have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The following properties were reviewed by the North Carolina National Register Advisory Committee, subsequently nominated by the North Carolina State Historic Preservation Officer, and forwarded to the Keeper of the National Register for consideration for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
Bennett Place State Historic Site will host its annual anniversary program on Saturday, April 25, from 11 a.m.- 3 p.m. The program commemorates the surrender of 89,270 Confederate troops negotiated by Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston and U.S. Army Major General William T. Sherman. The generals met three times at James and Nancy Bennett’s farmhouse in April 1865, ultimately agreeing to what became the largest surrender of the American Civil War on April 26, 1865. Bennett Place is administered by the Division of State Historic Sites within the N.C.
North Carolina will commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Halifax Resolves with “Prelude to Revolution: Halifax Resolves Days,” an immersive three-day event featuring living history vignettes, lectures, live colonial music and Tryon Palace Fife and Drum Corps performances, historic trades and weapons demonstrations, a military parade, tours, and more. The event will also officially open Historic Halifax State Historic Site’s recently renovated visitor center to the public, unveiling a modern facility and a new exhibit detailing Halifax’s significant role in the state’s history.
The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology has changed the name and expanded focus for one of its five locations. The Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Lab in Greenville was established in 2003 to preserve artifacts from one of North Carolina’s most significant archaeological discoveries — the wreck of Blackbeard’s flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge, formerly the French slave ship, La Concorde. The facility has been renamed the Office of State Archaeology Conservation Lab (OSA Lab).
In recognition of Black History Month and the America 250 NC commemoration, the State Arch