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Pay Homage to Tradition at the Tobacco Harvest and Hornworm Arts Festival

August 20, 2009 – 1:28 pm

Put on your bib overalls and head to Duke Homestead for the annual Tobacco Harvest and Hornworm Arts Festival on Saturday, Sept. 12.
Hear the sounds of the only tobacco auction left in the Bull City at Duke Homestead, the home and farm where Washington Duke first grew and processed tobacco. His sons later founded The [...]

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Find Out How Washington Duke Grew Tobacco in the 19th Century

April 30, 2009 – 3:35 pm

DURHAM—Discover how 19th-century farmers like Washington Duke grew tobacco in piedmont North Carolina by attending Duke Homestead’s annual “Planting Day” program on Saturday, May 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the state historic site in Durham.
Free and open to the public, this hands-on living history program will feature colorfully costumed interpreters transplanting tobacco [...]

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Traditional 19th Century Piedmont Christmas at Duke Homestead Dec. 5 and Dec. 12

December 1, 2008 – 5:05 pm

DURHAM—Remember how people in North Carolina’s piedmont celebrated the holidays 140 years ago at the Duke Homestead State Historic Site Friday, Dec. 5, and Friday, Dec. 12. From 7-9 p.m. each evening, the old Duke family homestead will literally glow during the free “Christmas by Candlelight” program, which evokes a typical Christmas in the 1870s. [...]

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