Historic Latta Plantation

www.lattaplantation.org

5225 Sample Road, Huntersville, NC 28078

704-875-2312, ext. 304

Kristin Toler, Executive Director

ktoler@lattaplantat ion.org

cell: 704-264-9346

Fall Homeschool Day at Latta Plantation!

September 30, 2009 (10am-4pm)

(Please note date change!)

Celebrate the Harvest in 19th century style! 


Celebrate the Harvest and learn about fall on the plantation! There will be presentations throughout the day about our short-staple cotton crops and the harvesting process, the art of wood chopping and firestarting, and our honeybee hives. Talk to beekeepers about the great benefits of honeybees on the farm! Also, learn how 19th century people prepared for winter and see food preservation techniques in the kitchen and candlemaking in the cabin.

Homeschoolers can also make corn art to keep and start their own farming weather journal, using quill pens. We invite families to make a day of it and bring a picnic lunch, tour the circa 1800 plantation house and outbuildings, and visit rare and endangered breeds of livestock.

Admission is $5 per person, ages 4 and under are free.


About Historic Latta Plantation
Historic Latta Plantation, once a successful cotton plantation, is now an historic farm. Costumed interpreters, historic displays and hands-on activities allow visitors to experience what life was like for the planters, yeoman farmers, and enslaved African- Americans of the North Carolina backcountry in the early 19th century. Historic Latta Plantation features the home of James Latta, built ca. 1800, as well as original and replica outbuildings and historically appropriate farming practices and livestock. Historic Latta Plantation is owned by Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation and administered by Latta Place, Inc. It is funded in part by Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation and the Arts and Sciences Council.


Directions

Historic Latta Plantation is located on Sample Road, off of Beatties Ford Road in Huntersville, NC. Traveling from Charlotte on I-77 North, take exit 16B (Sunset Road West,) make a right at the 2nd light onto Beatties Ford Road, continue on Beatties Ford Road for approximately 5 miles and make a left onto Sample Road. Historic Latta Plantation is located at the end of Sample Road. From the north on I-77 South, take exit 23 (Huntersville) . Turn right off of the exit onto Gilead Road. Take the third left, McCoy Road. At the stop sign, turn right on Beatties Ford Road. Turn left onto Sample Road.


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Historic Latta Plantation is supported in part by operating grants from Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation, and the Arts and Science Council of Charlotte.