Denton Farmpark
Only open to the public three times a year, the Denton Farmpark takes students back to yesteryear with exhibits showing farming tools and techniques of the past.
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- Why is the past important? As an introduction to the study of North Carolina's archaeological heritage, students will use personally owned object to share the importance of their past and connect this importance with reasons why the human past is important.
- Lesson plan: The mystery of the amazing farmers Students learn about the concepts of human capital and productivity through an analysis of the changes in U.S. agricultural methods in the last century.
- A revolution in agriculture Science and technology made farmers more productive in the nineteenth century, but added expenses that drove small farmers off the land.
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- Bea Hensley, Blacksmith: A National Heritage Fellowship Award winner, Bea Hensley has been blacksmithing since he was a young man. Today, he and his son give demonstrations of traditional techniques to create fine ornamental ironwork.
- Shiloh Farm: An agritourism business designed to show city and suburb dwellers forgotten practices of farming.
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park Mountain Farm Museum: Historic buildings, farm animals, and demonstrations can be seen at the Smoky Mountains National Park Mountian Farm Museum.
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- Learn more about Davidson County, North Carolina, architecture, arts, crafts, farming, folk arts, innovation, machines, parks, and technology.
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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.
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