Historic Stagville Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Historic Stagville
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Volunteers provide guided tours to visitors of Historic Stagville. Tours visit the first plantation home, original slave cabin, and barn. Volunteers also process gift shop transactions and greet visitors when they arrive at the site. Prior teaching experience is appreciated for visiting groups, though it is certainly not necessary. Sewing knowledge is appreciated to make period costumes for living history programs.
Volunteers attend an orientation meeting and go through training to give guided tours.
More opportunities with Historic Stagville
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Historic Stagville
Location:
5828 Old Oxford Hwy, Durham, NC 27722, US
Mission Statement
To preserve and interpret the history of enslaved and free individuals who established, developed, and maintained the Bennehan-Cameron plantations.
Description
Historic Stagville is a North Carolina Historic Site that interprets Stagville Plantation, which was part of the largest plantation complex in North Carolina at the start of the Civil War. The plantation amounted to 30,000 acres, spreading across four counties, and about 900 enslaved people lived and worked on the plantation complex. Historic Stagville visitors tour the first plantation home, original slave cabin, and barn, which was the largest agriculture building in the state upon completion in 1860.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
5828 Old Oxford HwyDurham, NC 27722
DATE POSTED
March 27, 2015
SKILLS
- Customer Service
- Sewing
- People Skills
- Teaching / Instruction
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Orientation or Training
- Up to the guide