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Day-long series of activities explores occupations of the 1700s including preserving food in the smokehouse, dyeing cloth, carpentry, blacksmithing and making bricks out of clay.

Efforts to expand The Plantation Stories Project, which aims to capture the stories of African American people who were oppressed and marginalized at the John Dickinson Plantation, continue.

Historic site is preparing for a public meeting to form a Descendant Community Engagement Group. Collaboratively, the group will provide recommendations for the interpretation of the site, including the African Burial Ground.

The public is invited to learn more about the inclusive work being done at the John Dickinson Plantation and through the formation of a Descendant Community Engagement Group.

Employee known for conducting highly entertaining site tours and for excelling at all forms of period demonstrations.

The public will soon be able to explore information on a handful of the free and enslaved people who lived, worked and died at the John Dickinson Plantation through an enhanced online spreadsheet that is part of a larger Plantations Stories Project.

Programs explore the experiences of the enslaved and free African Americans who lived, labored and died on the John Dickinson Plantation.

Archaeology and landscape-design projects to help tell the stories of African Americans who lived and died at the John Dickinson Plantation.

Hundreds of area students visited the John Dickinson Plantation this spring to learn about the importance of water throughout history.

On Monday, November 18th, 2024, the Department of State’s Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs(HCA) held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the construction of a new the John Dickinson Plantation […]

A Site of Conscience is a place of memory that confronts both the history of what happened there and its contemporary legacies.

Project supported, in part, by a $5,000 grant from
the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

John Dickinson Plantation burial ground for enslaved men, women and children, and for free African Americans who died on the site, to be preserved and interpreted.

Next year, the public will get new access to the John Dickinson Plantation thanks to a pathways project that will connect the site to the St. Jones Reserve.

The division is seeking descendants of those who lived, worked and died at the John Dickinson Plantation in an effort to tell the stories of Indigenous and free, indentured and enslaved people of color who have been overlooked in historical accounts.

A new website featuring 131 names shares the stories of the enslaved, indentured, freedom-seeking and free Black people who lived, worked and died at and near the John Dickinson Plantation.