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, hearth cooking, hands-on activities with historic interpreters, and tours of the plantation.
We are excited to have Braima Moiwai, percussionist and storyteller from Sierra Leone, who will host interactive musical presentations. Enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides along the historic carriage drives. The Washington Underground Railroad Museum will be here again with their wonderful interactive
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March 18, 2023, 10am - 11am
Learn about some of the remarkable women who lived and worked at Somerset Place. This 60-minute guided tour will focus on the contributions that enslaved and free women made to the development, maintenance, and infrastructure of the plantation.
March 4, 2023, 10am - 11am
Learn about some of the remarkable women who lived and worked at Somerset Place. This 60-minute guided tour will focus on the contributions that enslaved and free women made to the development, maintenance, and infrastructure of the plantation.
December 4, 2022, 1pm - 4pm
'Tis the season! Explore, enjoy, and experience the Christmas season at Somerset Place for the 32nd Annual Christmas Open House on Sunday, December 4th, from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
June 11, 2022, 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.
March 1, 2022, 10am - March 29, 2022, 10am
We’re excited to commemorate Women’s History Month in March with our spe
February 19, 2022, 11am - 12pm
Somerset Black History Month Lecture, Saturday, February 19, 2022; 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Join us as we commemorate Black History Month with a virtual program featuring Kiana Fekette. She will be presenting her research on Somerset’s archaeological collections of personal adornments recovered from the former enslaved community archaeological excavations conducted at Somerset Place in the 1980s and 90s. The presentation will be followed by a Q and A session.
December 5, 2021, 1pm - 4pm
'Tis the season! Explore, enjoy, and experience the Christmas season at Somerset Place for the 31st Annual Christmas Open House on Sunday, December 5th, from 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Be inspired by traditional holiday decorations of fresh natural and floral arrangements adorning the exterior and interior of site buildings. Explore the plantation on a self-guided tour with staff members and volunteers available to answer questions. A costumed doctor from the mid-nineteenth century will also be on hand to discuss antebellum medicine in the plantation hospital.
Be inspired by traditional holiday decorations of fresh natural and floral arrangements adorning the exterior and interior of site buildings. Explore the plantation on a self-guided tour with staff members and volunteers available to answer questions. A costumed doctor from the mid-nineteenth century will also be on hand to discuss antebellum medicine in the plantation hospital.
November 5, 2021 - December 17, 2021, All day
"Navigating Jim Crow: The Green Book and Oasis Spaces in North Carolina” is a traveling exhibit that was developed by the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission and made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.