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Trained docents conduct Historic Rosedale Plantation Tours for drop-in visitors are Thursday through Sunday beginning at 1:30 and 3:00 pm. Groups of 15 or more should make reservations for a special scheduled tour and receive discounted admission.
Historic Rosedale
Plantation Tour View original surviving faux-grained paneling; 1800's French wallpaper, and hand-carved classical mantels. Stroll surviving boxwood gardens, examine archaeological remains of outbuildings and view six designated "Treasure Trees" on the 8 1/2 acre grounds.
Pricing Tours are paid for at the door - no online payments accepted.
Plantation Children's
Life Hands on activities and role playing allow today's children to explore medicine, education and daily chores of Ante-bellum Mecklenburg County. Children are invited to join in the lessons being taught by the Caldwell's tutor, and receive instruction in mental math, exploration of the western territory, Presidents of the United States, plus manners and deportment. Tours last approximately 1 1/2 hours. Group reservations required. Designed for children 8 and up. $4.00 per child.
Unheard Voices Tour This tour is designed to examine the personal and work life of the 20 slaves that inhabited the Caldwell Plantation of the early 1800's. The 1 1/2 hour tour by costumed docents tell the story of Ben, the carriage driver, Jenny, the cook, Cherry, the children's nurse, and Nat the blacksmith of the plantation and provides insight into the lives of those whose voices are seldom heard.
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Special Scheduled Tours
White
plantation owners and their families left many documents and
papers to tell us of their lives while the unheard voices of the
enslaved Africans who spent their lives toiling the red clay of
the piedmont Carolina are seldom heard.