Please note: you must register in advance to join this hike! To register, please email stagville@dncr.nc.gov. Your registration is not confirmed until you receive an email confirmation. Space is limited for this small group event.
Topics Related to Seasonal and Holiday Events
December 7, 2024, 9am - 5pm
Join us at Alamance Battleground to learn about the traditions, foodways, and culture of North Carolina's German communities as we celebrate the Christmas holiday with our special event, "German Christmas in Colonial Carolina." By the 1770s, the backcountry of North Carolina boasted several communities of Germans who had settled here after migrating from their original settlements in Pennsylvania. They brought with them their traditions and culture that still shape our region today. $5 Adults - $2 Children
December 14, 2024, 5pm - 8pm
Join the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum and Town of Sedalia for our annual tree lighting event! With vendors, live music, and Santa.
June 8, 2024, 10am - 3pm
Come and experience history through arts, crafts, guided tours, and activities! This annual event will feature opportunities to learn about plantation life through historic trades and crafts, living history, hands-on activities with historic interpreters, and tours of the plantation. Historian Gary Riggs will discuss Civil War medicine by the reconstructed hospital. Enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides along the historic carriage drives. The Washington Underground Railroad Museum will be here again with their wonderful interactive presentation.
July 4, 2024, 10am - 11am
Commemorate Independence Day with the annual community reading of "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" at the historic Horton Grove slave quarters.
June 22, 2024, 10am - 2pm
Visit Stagville for Juneteenth to remember and celebrate emancipation at one of the state's largest plantations.
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.
March 9, 2024, 11:15am - 12:15pm
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.
December 19, 2024, 10am - 3pm
Christmas Open House!
December 7, 2024, 5pm - 8:30pm
Enjoy the beauty of a 19th century Christmas aglow with candlelight at the Harper House at Bentonville Battlefield December 7th 2024