Duke Homestead State Historic Site

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September 12, 2009

Tobacco Harvest and Hornworm Festival

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

In the morning, come see costumed interpreters demonstrate tobacco harvesting, stringing, and curing.  In the afternoon, hear the sounds of the only tobacco auction left in Durham.  Make sure to enter a hornworm in the 3rd Annual Duke Homestead Hornworm race!

Free Admission

 

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Tobacco Harvest and

 

 Hornworm Festival

 

 

Saturday, 


September 12, 2009

 

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

 

Free

 


CLOSED JULY 3, 2009

OPEN JULY 4, 2009 9 AM - 5 PM

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@ncmail.net