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December 5, 2025, 5:30pm - 8pm
Experience an authentic Christmas of long ago in the warm glow of lantern light. Enjoy homes, public buildings, and taverns decorated for the season with festive, all-natural décor. Interactive historical vignettes will bring each building to life. Enjoy a warm fire in the Tap Room tavern just as guests did two hundred years ago! Tickets go on sale Nov. 1st.
September 6, 2025, 10am - 4pm
Come learn about the traditional crafts and trades that helped to make Halifax “The Hub of the Roanoke”. See traditional crafts being made, talk with the tradesmen and women of the era, and discover how people lived and labored in early Halifax.
August 1, 2025, 1pm - 4pm
Did you know that North Carolina’s first public reading of the Declaration of Independence took place in Halifax on August 1st, 1776? Join historical interpreters as they reenact events surrounding the joyous news of American independence from Britain. At 12:00pm, see a reenactor portray Cornelius Harnett, President of the Council of Safety, read the Declaration for the first time in North Carolina.
July 4, 2025, 1pm - 4pm
Enjoy the Fourth of July in the historic town of Halifax at an event complete with an interactive reading of the Declaration of Independence. Stay for the Town's fireworks display that evening.
April 11, 2025, 10am - April 12, 2025, 5pm
A commemoration of the 149th anniversary of the adoption of the Halifax Resolves, the first official call for independence from Britain by elected leaders representing an entire colony. Two days of living-history demonstrations, ceremonies, historical presentations, tours and interactive, family-friendly activities all combine for a town-wide historical event.
December 12, 2025, 5:30pm - 9pm
You're invited to join us at Christmas by Candlelight - Experience an 1870s North Carolina Christmas with Duke Homestead!
December 5, 2025, 5:30pm - 9pm
You're invited to join us at Christmas by Candlelight - Experience an 1870s North Carolina Christmas with Duke Homestead!
September 6, 2025, 11:15am - September 27, 2025, 2:15pm
To learn a fuller story of the people who worked in tobacco, join Duke Homestead staff on site for a special program, “Field & Factory: A Look at Tobacco’s Laborers.” These walks will highlight the contributions that each group of people working in tobacco made to North Carolina’s culture and powerful economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, while addressing the inequalities in tobacco’s labor forces.
We will depart from the visitor’s center lobby at 11:15am at 2:15pm on Saturday September 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th. Admission is free.
August 16, 2025, 10am - 2pm
Experience North Carolina farming culture and history at Duke Homestead!
May 31, 2025, 11am - 3pm
We often talk about Duke Homestead as the birthplace of Washington Duke’s tobacco business. But it was also the birthplace of some important Duke family members, and where a handful of women worked to raise those children and maintain a home.