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...

The Pender County Museum collects and makes available to the public items that reflect the history of the Pender County area and its people. Permanent exhibits include Native American artifacts, Victorian furniture, personal artifacts once belonging to Pender County...

Moores Creek National Battlefield commemorates the 1776 victory by 1,000 Patriots over about 800 Loyalists at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. The battle dashed the hopes of Province of North Carolina Royal Governor Josiah Martin's hopes of regaining control of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

One of the oldest existing peanut plantations in North Carolina , Poplar Grove Plantation was in the same family for over 6 generations.  The Foys originally purchased the land in 1795 and kept it until the mid 1970’s. Poplar Grove Plantation preserves the...

The main gallery of this museum features the long-term exhibit - "THE WATER AND THE WOOD: The History of Onslow County." The exhibit documents the history of the county from its geologic foundations beginning 65 million to the present. Areas of particular note...