Fall is in the air at Somerset Place State Historic Site, just in time for Crafts and Crops Day on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. With harvesttime in full swing, come and experience fun, food, arts, history and crafts for the whole family. Admission is $2 for children and $4 for adults.
Corn was a major staple and cash crop at Somerset Place when it was an active plantation. Join in hands-on activities to make sedge brooms, pin cushions and corn husk dolls. Bring your competitive spirit to participate in a corn-hole game or corn-on-the-cob eating contest. Visitors can engage in a corn food demonstration and then sample corn products. Somerset's popular cornbread recipe and hand-ground mix will be demonstrated on the hearth and will be for sale.
Enjoy wagon rides around the site on the historic cypress-lined carriage trails. Witness a canoe-digging demonstration. A costumed interpreter will showcase hand-dying alongside other period artisans and tradespeople. Learn about Somerset’s history on a guided tour of the plantation. Vendors will be selling food, crafts and artwork as well.
Somerset Place is a representative state historic site offering a comprehensive view of 19th century life on a large North Carolina plantation. The plantation once encompassed more than 100,000 acres. Over its 80-year history, more than 861 enslaved African Americans lived and worked at Somerset.
For additional information, please call (252) 797-4560. Somerset Place is located at 2572 Lake Shore Road, Creswell. It is administered by the Division of State Historic Sites in the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.