Tobacco Farm Life Museum

  North Carolina grows more tobacco than any other state, almost double that of Kentucky which comes in at second place.  Before entering the museum itself watch the short video on tobacco farming today. There’s a lot that goes into growing a crop of tobacco! The museum is kind of a maze. Follow the arrows on the floor so that you don’t miss anything. Displays include modern farming methods, historic tobacco warehouse photos, old farming equipment, and general information about farm life in the past.

    

  Seven buildings have been relocated or reconstructed on the grounds to portray life on a small rural tobacco farm from the early to middle 1900s. Included are a homestead with detached kitchen, a tobacco barn, a smokehouse,  a one-room schoolhouse, a tobacco packhouse and working blacksmith shop.

       

  The museum is accessible but some of the aisle may be too narrow for larger wheelchairs or scooters. Most of the pathways are paved but where they aren’t the gravel is loose and very difficult to push through. Drive past the main lot to the second lot where there’s an accessible space with a paved sidewalk to the museum. The buildings except for the blacksmith shop have steps and are not accessible.

  

  Both lots are large enough for RVs. Museum  35.60027, -78.11696