Planned Local Event #4 -- Historic Tour -- Life in the Old South Tour

Historic Tour -- Life in the Old South Tour

Tuesday, May 12 8:15a-5:30p

Cost: $55 per person (lunch not included in price)

Experience the Old South at Historic Stagville Plantation, one of the largest in antebellum North Carolina. From the halls of the plantation house to the dirt floors of the slave quarters, you will learn about the realities of a much storied era.

As a contrast to plantation life, we also explore the life of a small tobacco farmer at Duke Homestead. From this humble site, Washington Duke built a tremendous tobacco company. Costumed interpreters will demonstrate 19th century life and southern farming techniques.

After lunch on your own at Cracker Barrel, we tour Bennett Place, the site of the surrender between Generals Sherman and Johnston that ended the Civil War for the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.

The final stop is the charming and authentic Patterson’s Mill Country Store. In addition to their vast collection of mercantile antiques, you may browse their rich offerings of down home foods, crafts and nostalgic collectibles.

Depart by tour bus from conference center