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Focus Weekend: Tobacco
Visit the park to experience our third Focus Weekend featuring tobacco. Production of tobacco was a vital agricultural product and business in Virginia and still is today. The 19th century saw Southside Virginia produce large amounts of tobacco and the park's Tudor Hall Plantation grew the plant as a cash crop. Programs throughout the day... Read more »
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Focus Weekend: Faith and Religion in the Civil War
Visit the park to experience our fourth Focus Weekend: Faith and Religion in the Civil War. Religion was omnipresent during the Civil War era. Some denominations, such as the Methodists, were the first institutions in America to split over the issue of slavery. Millenarianism was a belief that the Second Coming would occur in 2000,... Read more »
