Duke Homestead State Historic Site

Frommer's Review

The Duke homestead, where Washington Duke opened his first tobacco factory in a rickety one-room barn, is today a National Historic Landmark. As a Confederate soldier, Duke learned about the Union soldiers' love of Bright Leaf tobacco, and he returned home to begin the humble enterprise that would one day establish North Carolina as the heart of a worldwide tobacco empire. The homestead has been called a "living museum of tobacco history," and the early farming techniques and manufacturing processes used in the production of tobacco are demonstrated. (Don't mention cancer around here.) A color film, Carolina Bright, serves as an orientation to the site.

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