Join us each Saturday in April for a special tour about Death and Dying in the North Carolina Backcountry!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You're invited to join us at Christmas by Candlelight - Experience an 1870s North Carolina Christmas with Duke Homestead!
You're invited to join us at Christmas by Candlelight - Experience an 1870s North Carolina Christmas with Duke Homestead!
Phantasmagoria, noun: a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection or assemblage; a dreamlike state where real and imagined elements blur together; a magical event at Duke Homestead on October 24th.
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