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Please keep checking the calendar as other events are in the planning stages.

February:  Black History Month

Tour highlights will include:
     African Americans on the plantations
     Baskets: uses in the fields and house
     Blacksmithing: making and repairing tools
     Weaver: making cloth to be used in clothing the slaves
     Documents: receipts, inventories
     Food:  recipes, rations, nutrition
     History:  census, land grants, slave codes, laws and slave patrols
March:  Women of the Civil War

Tour highlights will include
     The women of Poplar Grove
     Home & Hearth:  making clothing, recipes, making do's during the Civil War, shortage of "man" power
     Union raids:  fear, losses
     Blockade: shortages
     

March 9,  9am – 5pm:  "Myths and Legends of the Civil War"

The Tarheel Civilians • 
Poplar Grove Plantation hosts The Tarheel Civilians, a group of North Carolina residents committed to interpretation and preservation of Civil War history.  Dressed in historical reproduction clothing, they will add to the tour by showing original artifacts, skills and customs common to women in the 19th century.  Spinning wool, knitting, shortages during the time of the confederacy, sewing skills, making cosmetics, etiquette and other skills and customs may be represented.

Women of the Confederacy, will have visuals and giving historical facts on the war.

Sgt. Fred Johnson's Battery B 2nd Regiment US Colored Light Artillary, INC. 18th Corps Civil War Re-enactors will be on hand to give you a living history of how their battalion served.

J.B. Wells, civil war artist will have a display of his works.

Commander Frederickson,  aka “General Sherman”  will  to bring his friends and discuss both sides of the war.

Admission fee:  $15 18 and older; $10 ages 8 to 17.  Different groups will be set up on the grounds and some in the newly restored antebellum manor house.  

April:  Weddings

Tour Highlights
     Victorian Weddings
     Wedding of Henrietta Foy and Dr. Shepard, Fort Fisher Post doctor

May:  Salt: 

How was it made?

July:  Transportation

Tour Highlights
    Plank road
    Railroad

December:  Christmas 

Tour Highlights:
     Victorian Christmas
      Junkanoo

December 4:  Christmas Open House

December 7 & 8:  Civil War Encampment

     Renactments
     Ball on Saturday night

 

December 20 Seasonal Closing       (reopens January 6, 2014)
FYI Poplar Grove Newstand and Library of Events