Penderlea Homestead Museum

08/22/2023

September's Year of the Trail Hike

Save the date
Remember Sept. 23 for a visit and hike in Penderlea, starting at the Penderlea Homestead Museum. Enjoy a day of exploring a New Deal farming community. The hike begins at 10 a.m. and will be led by Eleanor Roosevelt who visited Penderlea during her husband's presidency. Stay tuned for more details!

11/11/2019

Picture around 1953.

03/04/2019

Homestead Day is Saturday, April 20, 2019, from 11AM - 3PM, at the Homestead Museum. There will be barbeque sandwiches, cookies, cupcakes, pies and cakes, along with great coffee.

Hope to see everyone for fun and fellowship.

12/02/2017

December 1989 snow at the Murphy Home what is now the Penderlea Museum. Thanks Bett for sharing

03/19/2017

Read the Obituary and view the Guest Book, leave condolences or send flowers. | KINSTON | Kenneth Ray Stancill, 83, of 718 Colony Place in Kinston, passed away on Friday, March 10, 2017, at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, NC. He was born in Gardnerville, NC on March 26,

12/20/2015

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Penderlea Homestead Museum.

10/12/2015

08/30/2015

To***co barns in North Carolina are lone wooden structures — tall, gabled, unpainted, weathered, and as instantly recognizable as the crop itself.

07/31/2015

June Elizabeth Pittman Swinson, 62, of Currie passed gently from her earthly life on Thursday, July 30, 2015 at Lower Cape Fear Hospice and LifeCareCenter. She was born February 8, 1953 in Pender County, the daughter of the late English Alfred and Mary Elizabeth Squires Pittman. She was also precede…

06/11/2015

June 11, 1937. First Lady Roosevelt dancing in Penderlea.