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Denton Farmpark
Denton, NC (http://www.threshers.com/farmpark/seotr_schedule.html)
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- Appropriate grades: K–8
- Subjects: arts (architecture, crafts, folk art), science (technology & innovation), social studies (North Carolina)
- Provider: Old Thresher's Reunion
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This is a unique historical park open to the public three times a year. Threshing, shelling corn, and baling with machines, threshing with hooves in restored tramping barn, cutting and binding wheat, plowing, horses on treadmill, operating cotton gin, threshing and baling with steam and gas are demonstrations that can be seen at the park. There are also restored buildings which include a 19th century trampling barn, granary, blacksmith shop, slave house and smokehouse.