Due to the continued support from the public, grants, and the state, the Tobacco Farm Life Museum has grown and persevered even through...

Please join us in congratulating this year’s Innovative Young Farmer of the Year, Mr. Jason Farmer. Jason began his career in the sod...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum has been awarded a grant in the amount of $158,401 from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission....

By Cameron Mooring Agricultural society in America after the Civil War can be defined using two terms, sharecropping and tenant farming....

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is hiring several living history interpreters/demonstrators for a new Living History Program to begin in the...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is proceeding with plans for the 17th annual Breakfast with the Commissioner benefit. The program is held...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum will host its second annual Drive Through Christmas Village holiday lights this year during the first three...

By: Michael Rhodes Lunsford Lane began his life as an enslaved man, but died a free man by purchasing his freedom. Not only did he...

By Michael Rhodes “I say, if you can’t send money, send tobacco.” -George Washington’s request to help finance the American Revolutionary...

By Beth Nevarez The Tobacco Farm Life Museum recently received a generous donation of an early 1900s oil wagon. The oil wagon, which was...

We are excited to announce that the Tobacco Farm Life Museum received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH...

By Cameron Mooring My name is Cameron Mooring and I am from Goldsboro, NC. I am currently a senior at East Carolina University with a...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is excited to partner with the Town of Kenly and the Kenly Area Chamber of Commerce to usher in the holiday...

By Michael Rhodes Could tobacco have launched the original agricultural revolution in the United States that mirrored the importance of...

By Mike Rhodes Hello, my name is Mike Rhodes and I am very excited to be a part of the Tobacco Farm Life Museum family. I come to the...

One-Room Schoolhouses: Rural Education In the early 1900s, rural North Carolina communities built separate schools for black children and...

Who doesn't love the simple pleasure that is homemade ice cream in the heat of summer? Learn more about how old-fashioned ice cream was...

We're working for Victory, too; growing food for ourselves and our countrymen. While other women work at machines and in factories—we're...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum has opened a new exhibit about the history and science of soil and water conservation. It All Starts With...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum will hold the 16th annual Breakfast with the Commissioner benefit with Commissioner of Agriculture Steve...