Topics Related to Historical Tours and Reenactments
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!
October 24, 2025, 6:30pm - 9:30pm
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.
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.
March 8, 2025, 10am - 3pm
Join us on March 8th to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the CSS Neuse Museum opening in downtown Kinston!
March 29, 2025, 10am - 11am
Join us for the Women of Somerset Place Tour – Every Wednesday and Saturdays in March 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 am. Learn about some of the remarkable women who lived and worked at Somerset Place. The 60- minute special tour will focus on the contributions that enslaved and free women made to the development, maintenance, and infrastructure of Somerset Place. The tour will be offered to commemorate Women’s History Month.
March 26, 2025, 10am - 11am
Join us for the Women of Somerset Place Tour – Every Wednesday and Saturdays in March 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 am. Learn about some of the remarkable women who lived and worked at Somerset Place. The 60- minute special tour will focus on the contributions that enslaved and free women made to the development, maintenance, and infrastructure of Somerset Place. The tour will be offered to commemorate Women’s History Month.
March 22, 2025, 10am - 11am
Join us for the Women of Somerset Place Tour – Every Wednesday and Saturdays in March 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 am. Learn about some of the remarkable women who lived and worked at Somerset Place. The 60- minute special tour will focus on the contributions that enslaved and free women made to the development, maintenance, and infrastructure of Somerset Place. The tour will be offered to commemorate Women’s History Month.
March 19, 2025, 10am - 11am
Join us for the Women of Somerset Place Tour – Every Wednesday and Saturdays in March 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 am. Learn about some of the remarkable women who lived and worked at Somerset Place. The 60- minute special tour will focus on the contributions that enslaved and free women made to the development, maintenance, and infrastructure of Somerset Place. The tour will be offered to commemorate Women’s History Month.