Poplar Grove Plantation

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Please keep checking the calendar as other events are in the planning stages.
February Black History Month
Tour Highlights:
    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
     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 12 Civil War History tours 
         "Women on the Home Front"
Hammer in (Blacksmithing)
Col. Black Jack Travis book signing
Captain John Newland Maffitt re-enacted by his great grandson.
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
    
September 17

September 21

 Hampstead Art League Show and Sale

Bridal Expo
December Christmas 
Tour Highlights:
     Victorian Christmas
      Junkanoo
December 4 Christmas Open House
December 21 Seasonal Closing       (reopens February 4, 2013)
FYI Poplar Grove Newstand and Library of Events