Duke Homestead State Historic Site

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August 14, 2010

Summer Children's Festival

10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Visit Duke Homestead for finest family fun!  Our August 2nd Saturdays event will feature arts and crafts made by and for children. We will also have music, dancing, storytelling, and games!  Free.  Currently seeking vendors under the age of 21 and vendors who create and sell items for children!  Click here for a vendor registration form.

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DUKE HOMESTEAD'S SUMMER CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 FROM 10AM TO 4PM!!!

 

This event will showcase both arts and crafts people under the age of 21 AND vendors who create and sell items for children.  Enjoy music, dancing, storytellers, and games!


 

Thank you for visiting.  By following the links on the top left, you can learn about the site's history, plan your visit, see our upcoming calendar of events, and much more!

 

 

At Duke Homestead, visitors can tour the early home, factories, and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco.  Duke's sons later founded The American Tobacco Company, the largest tobacco company in the world.  The Dukes became one of the wealthiest families in the country at the turn of the 20th century and now lend their name to Duke University, Duke Energy, and the Duke Endowment.

 

 

Duke Homestead offers an orientation film twice an hour, an extensive tobacco museum, and guided tours of the surviving historical structures on the grounds.  Among these structures are early Bright Leaf tobacco barns, Washington Duke's first and third factories, and his 1852 homestead.

 


 Contact Us:

Duke Homestead State Historic Site

2828 Duke Homestead Road

Durham, NC 27705

Phone: 919.477.5498

Fax: 919.479.7092

E-mail: duke@ncdcr.gov

 

 

 


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