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State Historic Sites and Museums Plan for Storm

RALEIGH (Sept. 5, 2008)—Eighteen State Historic Sites will be closed Saturday, Sept 6, including the State Capitol. All nine State Historic Sites east of Interstate 95 will be closed: Governor Aycock, Historic Bath, Bentonville Battlefield, Brunswick Town, CSS Neuse, Fort Fisher, Historic Edenton, Historic Halifax, Somerset Place and Roanoke Island Festival Park.
Sites in the [...]

America’s Largest Spittoon Collection Coming to Duke Homestead State Historic Site

DURHAM—Thanks to a Connecticut man who collected 282 old-fashioned spittoons, Duke Homestead State Historic Site will soon display the nation’s largest collection of this vanishing piece of tobacco memorabilia.
The N.C. Historic Sites division has reached an agreement with Jim Kinner of Jewett City, Conn., to buy his brass, glass and porcelain spittoon collection for $6,700, [...]