Kings Mountain State Park
PARK PROGRAMS
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Participants will travel on horseback through beautiful Croft State Natural Area with a park guide. Riders will hear how people once lived here and used the land in past eras. Along the way, visitors will discover old homesteads, cemeteries and mineral springs where they will hear a brief history of Whitestone Springs, where people once purchased water for health purposes. This will be a fun-filled and relaxing day on horseback discovering Croft State Natural Area's varied history.
Croft State Natural Area
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Come join us for a Christmas celebration 1850s style. Reenactors will be cooking over the hearth in our 1800s Homeplace using traditional methods of the period. We will also be making decorations, wreaths, corn husk angels, and decorating our tree. There will also be crafts to take home and hot cider to drink. Discover the Christmas of your ancestors as it was just beginning to take its modern form.
Kings Mountain State Park
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The differences between Christmas during the southern antebellum period and what the common perception of the “Charles Dickens-Victorian” Christmas, are really two completely different things. Antebellum Christmas was actually a low-key affair. A day spent with family, a better-than-usual meal, small gifts exchanged, and a church observance were the major events. Décor, was usually geared towards “sprucing up the house” with evergreens and holly to brighten up the dreary winter, when compared to the Victorian Wonderland with which we all are most familiar. Come and view Rose Hill Plantation as it might have been in the Antebellum era. Interpreters in period clothing will be on hand to walk visitors through the mansion, and explain the differences between a real Antebellum Christmas, and the image of Christmas with which we are all familiar. The Mansion will be decorated for the holidays throughout the month of December. Admission for the Holiday Open House is $5.00 per person.
Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site
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 Blacksburg
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