Historic Stagville sits outside of Durham, North Carolina. I toured this fascinating site with Rose Hammitt while in Chapel Hill for the North American Travel Journalist Conference. This historic site shares the story of a pre-Civil War farm. I think for those of us that grew up in the north, the plantation and slavery times are […]
A stop at the Duke Homestead offered a fascinating look into both the Civil War time period and tobacco history. It was Washington Duke that farmed the ground before being conscripted to join the Civil War along with his 18 year-old son Brody. After losing his oldest son and two wives, Washington Duke set […]
Outside Durham, North Carolina is a farm where a unique event took place. On April 17, 1865 General Joseph Eggleston Johnston and Major General William Tecumseh Sherman met to negotiate terms of surrender. Not long before, on April 9th, Lee and Grant had met at Appomattox and that I thought was the end of the […]
While you may know a lot about Abraham Lincoln, Jenifer Brownell, site interpreter for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum (ALPM) said that Mary is more mysterious. “Mary is a bit obscure,” Jenifer said at the beginning of the Abe & Mary: Quite Contrary Walking Tour. This tour officially starts Tuesday June 6, 2017 and will […]
The Civil War took its toll on the town of Kinston, North Carolina. Jan Parson of the Kinston Chamber of Commerce shared information on the hosted tour I was part of. Jan explained that the state of North Carolina was really on the fence when it came to the War. “We didn’t want to be in the war. […]