Guided tour of the Kenan family ancestral home, a restored Southern plantation of the 1800s. Eleven rooms, 12 dependencies including garden shop, wine cellar, carriage house, servants quarters, chicken house, smokehouse, overseer's cottage, woodshed, tool house, wash...

A collection of the rare, the unique and the unusual can be discovered at Cowan Museum. A multitude of artifacts fill the restored 1848 Kelly-Farrior home depicting the early rural heritage of North Carolina and Duplin County. Scores of woodworking tools, early...

Entering the first floor of the house will take the visitor back to the turn-of-the-century. Furnishing donated by Mr. L.P.Best, Jr. create a feeling of what it was like to live there when it was the Best family home. Portraits of the owners, their original banquet...

Built in the 1850s by Dr. Buckner Lanier Hill, Buckner Hill Plantation is one of the largest plantation houses in North Carolina. It is still surrounded by "hundreds of acres of cotton corn tobacco and cattle, provides a rare view of original, mostly undisturbed...

The Wilbur A. Tyndall Tractor Museum collects and exhibits John Deere, Massey, and other brand tractors dating to the early 1900's, other farm implements, advertisements, signs, agriculture and rural life memorabilia, and local history artifacts from the Pink Hill...

The museum comprises 11 buildings, including a "Dogtrot" style farmhouse from the 1830s, a tobacco barn, a corncrib, a smokehouse, a country store and a chicken house, which now serves as an exhibit hall. There's also a modern visitors center with exhibits, a seating...

The Mount Olive Area Historical Society was organized in 1997 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The Society’s goals are to discover, preserve and disseminate knowledge of the history of Mount Olive and surrounding areas; to designate historic districts, sites...

At the turn of the century visitors flocked to the area. They drank mineral water from local springs to cure their ills and they took riverboat excursions to the cliffs. Things have changed since then, however, the cliffs remain virtually unaltered, standing as a...

The Sampson County History Museum is intended for promotion and understanding of the historical and material culture of Sampson County and its unique heritage. Through collections and historical interpretation, this museum promises to encourage visitors and citizens...

In 1934, Penderlea Homestead Farms was one of the first homestead projects developed during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Program. It helped members of the farming community who were suffering from bankruptcy and unemployment to make a living and...