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Poplar Grove Plantation
                                      One of North Carolina’s oldest peanut
                                      plantations, within the Gullah Geechee
                                                                        welcome
                                      Corridor, remaining in the same family    Things to Do
                                      from 1795-1971. Tours, heritage arts
      NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT  studios, plantation life exhibits, barnyard
                                      animals, picnic and playground area,
     programs. 20 miles north of Wilmington   farmers market, annual events, meeting
     via U.S. 421 in Currie, NC 28435.    space. 10200 U.S. Hwy. 17 N., 28411.
                                       : 910-686-9518
      : 910-283-5591                  :  poplargrove.org
      :  nps.gov/mocr
                                         US Coast Guard Cutter             Wilmington
        Oakdale Cemetery                Diligence VI
     Oakdale Cemetery’s eloquent epitaphs and   Free tours when in port. Wilmington, a “US
     symbolic funerary art tell stories of those   Coast Guard City,” has been the home port
     who lived before us and their interesting   for the USCGC DILIGENCE since 1792. On
     lives, including a female Confederate spy.   the Riverwalk, Water St., 28401.
     520 N. 15th St., 28401.           : 910-815-4528
      : 910-762-5682                  :  atlanticarea.uscg.mil/Area-Cutters/
      :  oakdalecemetery.org           CGCDILIGENCE


































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