The buildings of Historic Stagville tell the story of the lifestyle Plantation residents in the nineteenth century South from the Bennechan family plantation home to the four-room enslaved family houses.

Here in the rolling hills of North Carolina’s heartland tobacco executive Jeff Penn built an estate suitable to house he and his wife, Betsy’s, entertaining, artworks and furniture. 

Insights into rural plantation life in eastern North Carolina can be found at the Historic Hope Plantation.  Explore the 1803 Mansion, home to North Carolina Governor David Stone.