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Feb. 5: CLOSED: Horne Creek & Somerset Place. Delayed opening: Th. Day, Aycock Birthplace, CSS Neuse, Halifax, Edenton, Vance Birthplace & Th. Wolfe. All other sites open 9am-5 pm
Topics Related to Bennett Place State Historic Site
September 20, 2025, 7pm - 9:30pm
This program has been postponed from Friday April 25 to Saturday, September 20, 2025. The close of the American Civil War with military surrenders at sites like Bennett Place assured the end of legal slavery in America. Join us as we commemorate and recognize the lives of over 330,000 North Carolinians enslaved during the Civil War. This program highlights experiences of enslaved and newly freed people through storytelling, music, and luminaries.
March 21, 2025, 10am - 2pm
Bennett Place hosts several historic sites and museums for a history-packed School Day program. Students rotate through several stations focusing not just on Bennett Place and the Civil War, but many aspects of North Carolina’s long, rich history. Stations include hands-on activities, with most suited best for elementary school children. Advanced registration required - space limited.
April 27, 2024, 7pm - 9pm
Join us as we launch an evening component to our commemoration of the surrender at Bennett Place. This event will honor the lives of enslaved people in North Carolina who gained their freedom at the end of the Civil War.
April 27, 2024, 10am - 4pm
Join us as we commemorate the 159th anniversary of the Civil War surrender at the Bennett farmhouse! The daytime event features costumed interpretation of military and civilian life during the Civil War. The event is $5 for adults and $2 for children and seniors.
April 20, 2024, 11am - 1:45pm
Join us on Saturday April 20, 2024 as we celebrate Earth Day!For this event, we're proud to partner with Duke University students to highlight how history & science can go hand-in-hand to teach us about the world around us. At 1pm, Duke graduate student Kalei Porter will lead a guided tour of the nature trail to explore how history and science meet.
April 22, 2023, 10am - 4pm
158th Bennett Place Anniversary with living history and lectures.
May 27, 2023, 10am - May 28, 2023, 3pm
Following the American Civil War, a “Decoration Day” began in communities across America remembering soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Senator John A. Logan, a former Union officer on staff with Major General William T. Sherman, was instrumental in making this a formal national day honoring our fallen soldiers, which became Memorial Day. Join military living historians representing the American soldier of all time periods throughout our nation’s history.
April 4, 2023, 10am - April 5, 2023, 3pm
This program is designed for public, private and homeschool groups to come out and learn about the military and civilian aspects of the war from living historians. There will be stations available in the historic area for students and adults to meet and listen to historians discuss different topics such as soldier life, Civil War flags, the postal system, the signal corp and much more.
This program will be broken down into two time slots: 10:00 -12:00 for the morning and 1:00 - 3:00 for the afternoon.
Reservations are required and we are taking them now.
This program will be broken down into two time slots: 10:00 -12:00 for the morning and 1:00 - 3:00 for the afternoon.
Reservations are required and we are taking them now.