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    Robbie C.

    What you will see here is what's left of a plantation site where slaves were kept and the artifacts of abandoned buildings. What you won't see is the torturous way in which they surely suffered by the daily rigors of being treated as such. We happened upon this place by pure accident. Never knew it existed. We arrived too early for the first guided tour at 11, so we did the self guided tour. I'm sure the guided tour is worth waiting for and filled with much more historical facts than just looking at the buildings. Walking through the area near the visitors section is a slave foundation, a kitchen foundation, the Bennehan (owners) house and a cemetery. You then drive a short distance up the road to where what's left of the great barn, Horton grove, and a nature preserve with walking trails. The Bennehan and Cameron families owned at least 900 slaves. Hopefully places like this will allow our children to see the errors of mans ways and may history never repeat the horrible way humans treat others.

    Pierre T.

    With all the active protest movements and renewed interest in black history and the celebration of Juneteenth, I decided to find somewhere in the area to learn more about the history of slavery in North Carolina. I came across Stagville while browsing online and decided to check it out! I've been in the area and have checked out many NC historic sites but had never heard of this one. Apparently, it was one of the largest plantations in North Carolina with 30,000 acres spanning 5 counties. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the buildings are currently closed to the public but they were still offering guided tours of the site at 11, 1 and 3 Tuesday through Saturday. There are two sections of the site, one where the visitors center and main house is, the other down Old Oxford Road where there are still standing slave quarters, a barn and other buildings. (Note that if you take the tour, you'll have to hop in your car to drive to the other site to finish the tour) Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and answered all of our questions about the history of the site, both before slavery and after slavery, and also answered a few other general questions about race and slavery in North Carolina. I think the tour was supposed to be an hour but it ended up being an hour and a half with all the interest we had in the site. I'll need to come back when the buildings are actually open.

    George C.

    Very nice site, we'll be back. The guided tours are only at 11, 1 am 3 Tuesday through Saturday. Not wanting to wait for 50 more minutes, we decided to come back. We're looking forward to it! 30,000 acres was the original plantation size.

    The Bennehan house.
    Kathryn C.

    Had some extra time to kill on the way to Franklin, NC and I really wanted to do a haunted something. Biltmore Estates was far too expensive being a last minute thing. I read some tidbits about apparitions appearing around Stagville, so I thought, what the heck. I called ahead, because I wasn't sure of tour times or group sizes. Tours are held on the hour every hour, last one at 3pm. My family and I happened to be the only people for the noon tour that day, but I was 100% fine with that. Our tour guide was an intern and she did a pretty good job of giving us the history of the Bennehan family and plantation and answering what few questions we had. The only one she really couldn't answer was about the supposed hauntings. Said she had a few other people ask her about that, but she really didn't know anything. Darn! Moved on to the slave quarters, which are about a half mile or so up the road. Fyi. :) We followed her up there in the car. The slave quarters, I read, are where people have seen the apparitions. The building we walked around has a fireplace and I thought it was especially interesting that some of the bricks have fingerprint molds from when the slaves built it. Last was the stables which was also up the road a little. Massive building with more interesting history behind it. The tour ends there, but I say make your way back where you started in the visitor's building and pick up some old fashioned candy canes or cookbooks. And don't forget to leave a small donation -the tour is free after all!

    Stagville slave house.

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    I love places of the past, we should learn all we can. Stagville tells of the heroine stories of the slave.

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    Focus is on the enslaved people who lived there and not on the plantation owners, and gives you a healthy dose of reality.

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