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- Penderlea Homestead Museum: A Homestead Community of the Depression Era
- Visit this Depression-era community built by President Roosevelt's New Deal progra, in 1934. The museum in Willard, North Carolina is open on Saturdays and by appointment.
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- Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum
- Visit Duke Homestead or take an online tour, which not only features the history of the Duke family, their tobacco endeavors, and their homestead, but also contains a collection of original cigarette commercials and a movie of the tobacco bagging process.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- The Davenport Homestead
- See what everyday life was like over 200 years ago at the Davenport Homestead. The main house is the original home of Washington County's first state senator, Daniel Davenport.
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- Hickory Ridge Homestead
- Visitors get insight into the lifestyle of early mountain settlers, how they lived, and what constituted a 'typical' mountain homestead at this eighteenth-century living history museum.
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- Tarkil Branch Farm's Homestead Museum
- 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.
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- The Homestead Strike
- The Carnegie Steel Works, showing the shield used by the strikers when firing the cannon and watching the Pinkerton men during the Homestead strike.
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- Tobacco factory at Duke Homestead
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- Factory at Duke Homestead
- Second tobacco factory at Duke Homestead.
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- Domestic work in the nineteenth century
- In North Carolina in the New South, page 5.11
- Videos of junior reenactors at Duke Homestead State Historic Site in Durham, North Carolina, show cooking indoors and outdoors and the work involved in doing laundry by hand.
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- Laundry and ironing by hand
- Demonstration of the washing, drying, and ironing of clothes by hand.
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- Cooking on a cast iron stove
- Demonstration of cooking on a nineteenth-century cast-iron cookstove.
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- Stone Mountain State Park
- This park not only allows enjoying the beauty of the area but also provides instruction in basic geologic concepts.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Cooking hoe cakes on an open fire
- Demonstration of cooking hoe cakes outdoors on an open fire. "Hoe cakes" are cakes or breads made of cornmeal, small enough to be cooked on the back of a farmer's hoe.
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- Wolfe Ranch in Arches National Park
- In 1898, Civil War veteran, John Wesley Wolfe, built a homestead and lived there for over a decade hoping to make his fortune. Wolfe Ranch still stands in what is now Arches National Park. This photograph shows the remains of his cabin, an out building, and...
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- Brinegar Cabin, Alleghany County, North Carolina
- Brinegar Cabin was built in 1880 by Martin Brinegar. He and his wife raised three children here and lived here until the 1930s. The homestead was then purchased for the Blue Ridge Parkway, where it now stands near a milepost marker. Two hiking trails start...
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- Poplar Grove Plantation
- Students will enjoy touring the big house and tenant farmer's cabin, the craft shops, and the blacksmith's shop at Poplar Grove Plantation.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Tobacco Farm Life Museum
- This history museum provides "an informative insight into early 20th century farm family life."
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Vance Birthplace (NC Historic Site)
- Learn about the birthplace of Zebulon Baird Vance and his famous mountain family on this site.
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- Aycock Birthplace
- This typical nineteenth-century family farm, birthplace of Governor Charles Brantley Aycock, includes the main house, separate open-hearth kitchen, corn crib, and smokehouses. Scheduled groups get a genuine hands-on experience making butter or dipping candles for a small fee.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
- Polk Memorial (NC Historic Site)
- A congressman for the state of Tennessee and President of the United States, James K. Polk was a native of the state of North Carolina. This historic site celebrates his life and accomplishments.
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