Duke Homestead

Fascinating Historical site

Visiting the Duke Homeplace provided some very interesting local history. Duke University is a result of the early Duke family becoming wealthy through the tobacco industry. This family over the gene...

Once the world's largest tobacco company in the world

Not smokers nor from the area, we learned a lot about North Carolina and Durham visiting this informative museum. First, we started with a short film reviewing the history of tobacco and smoking which...

Not Much Going On

An attraction that time has left behind. We were there on a Saturday, early afternoon. No one else was. The parking lot looks like a place that was busy in the 1970s, but no one visits anymore. We ...

Good for history buffs and tourists

We took the tour ($2). The tour guide, who farmed tobacco at a young age, was very knowledgeable about the Duke family and tobacco farming. The museum (free) and the tour, seeing an actual tobacco bar...

Great Tobacco Museum and Historic Site

Duke Homestead has a really good exhibit or museum about the Tobacco Industry and the impact on Durham. It covers the manufacturing process including large cigarette manufacturing equipment, the produ...