By Elizabeth Popovic This summer I had the privilege to serve as an intern at the Tobacco Farm Life Museum (TLFM) in Kenly, North...

[KENLY, NC August 2023] -The Powell family, owners of Big Boy’s Travel Center, made a $5,000 donation to the Tobacco Farm Life Museum in...

By Katie Collins My experience with the Tobacco Farm Life Museum is nothing but warm. The feeling the museum gives is something akin to...

We have two interns this summer who have been hard at work since May! We are very grateful to the North Carolina Department of...

The restoration of the tobacco barn at the Museum has been completed. Restoration work helped correct weather damage that had, over time,...

Our Breakfast with the Commissioner fundraiser on Friday, February 3rd was a huge success for the museum! Thank you to North Carolina...

Work is set to begin this month on the restoration of the historic tobacco barn on site at the Museum. The barn, which was moved from the...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is proceeding with plans for the 18th annual Breakfast with the Commissioner benefit. The program is held...

Last year the Museum received a generous donation of an early 1900s oil wagon. The oil wagon, which was used by Watson and Alford...

The Museum recently received a grant from the Tobacco Trust Fund Commission to fund repairs and upgrades to the museum's gallery...

Due to the continued support from the public, grants, and the state, the Tobacco Farm Life Museum has grown and persevered even through...

Please join us in congratulating this year’s Innovative Young Farmer of the Year, Mr. Jason Farmer. Jason began his career in the sod...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum has been awarded a grant in the amount of $158,401 from the North Carolina Tobacco Trust Fund Commission....

By Cameron Mooring Agricultural society in America after the Civil War can be defined using two terms, sharecropping and tenant farming....

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is hiring several living history interpreters/demonstrators for a new Living History Program to begin in the...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum is proceeding with plans for the 17th annual Breakfast with the Commissioner benefit. The program is held...

The Tobacco Farm Life Museum will host its second annual Drive Through Christmas Village holiday lights this year during the first three...

By: Michael Rhodes Lunsford Lane began his life as an enslaved man, but died a free man by purchasing his freedom. Not only did he...

By Michael Rhodes “I say, if you can’t send money, send tobacco.” -George Washington’s request to help finance the American Revolutionary...

By Beth Nevarez The Tobacco Farm Life Museum recently received a generous donation of an early 1900s oil wagon. The oil wagon, which was...