Discover NC! Duplin County

Duplin County

Cowan Museum

The Cowan Museum in Kenansville. Photograph from the Town of Warsaw website.

Field trip opportunities

Buckner Hill Plantation (Faison)
This plantation home is a good example of Greek Revival architecture. It features elaborate plaster moldings, high ceilings, and wide halls and the rooms are furnished with period furniture. Open by appointment only.
Cowan Museum (Kenansville)
A trip through Cowan Museum is a hands-on learning and entertaining experience for all ages.
Duplin County Veterans Memorial Museum (Warsaw)
See military artifacts and memorabilia at this museum which honors the servicemen and women of Dulpin County.
Glenwood Farms (Mount Olive)
Students will have fun while learning about North Carolina agriculture. This farm has seasonal crops, livestock, a petting zoo, and an aquaculture display.
Liberty Hall (Kenansville)
This fully restored home built in the early 1850s shows what life was like in rural North Carolina over 150 years ago.
Mike's Farm and Country Store (Beulaville)
Take a trip to the farm! Experience life on a farm today and in times gone by at this family-owned farm.
Tarkil Branch Farm's Homestead Museum (Beulaville)
Take a trip back in time to this working farm and museum. Comprised of 32 exhibits and over 850 items, students studying North Carolina history will see what it was like living on a farm in the nineteenth century.

Learn more about Duplin County

Measuring the waters
This lesson plan uses an excerpt from an oral history about measuring flood waters during Hurricane Floyd to teach students about the many ways measurements can be taken. Students are given an opportunity to practice measuring with a variety of tools and evaluate their effectiveness.
By Kristin Post
Liberty Hall
Come to Liberty Hall and discover North Carolina as it was 150 years ago. Meet the Kenan family in the Visitors Center's Theater. Tour the main house and share the life of a comfortable Southern plantation...
Cowan Museum
The museum features several thousand rare and unusual artifacts highlighting early rural America. Among the items is an extensive collection of wood-working tools, farm implements and household utensils....
Buckner Hill Plantation
Built in the 1850s by Dr. Buckner Lanier Hill, Buckner Hill Plantation is one of the largest plantation houses in North Carolina. It is still surrounded by "hundreds of acres of cotton corn tobacco...
Mike's Farm and Country Store
A warm wholesome family oriented atmosphere can be found on this working farm in Duplin County. Mike's Farm offers educational field trip programs for school groups in the fall and spring. Take a hayride,...
Tarkil Branch Farm's Homestead Museum
Designed as a place for students to come and learn about life in the nineteenth century, Tarkil Branch Farm's Homestead Museum offers a guided tour of its museum buildings, a farm tour on a tractor pulled...
Duplin County Veterans Memorial Museum
The Duplin County Veterans Memorial Museum is located in the L. P. Best house, a Queen Anne style home built in 1894. The second floor of the house is “dedicated to recognizing Duplin County servicemen...
Glenwood Farms
This 100 acre farm is fun for children of all ages. Visitors to Glenwood Farms will learn about seasonal crops including strawberries, corn, pumpkins, pecans, cotton, and soybeans. The grazing area has...

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