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Bed at Bennett Place
About this photograph
- Creator
- David Walbert
- Date created
- July 18, 2009
- License
- This photograph copyright ©2009. Terms of use
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- Antebellum homes and plantations: A tour of some of North Carolina's historic houses and farms — big and small, rich and poor — from before the Civil War. (Page 6.2)
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- Search LEARN NC for beds, Bennett Place, Durham County, furniture, houses, and North Carolina.
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This bed is an original bed of the 19th century which was the type of bed the Bennett family would have had in their home. The frame is wood with a crossed rope support underneath, and a mattress made of straw.
