Welcome to The Penderlea Homestead Museum web site. If you'd like to visit the Museum, we are located at 284 Garden Road on Penderlea (See directions). The Museum is open on Saturdays from 1:00 - 4:00 P.M., or by appointment. Please call: 910-285-3490.

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HOMESTEAD DAY, JUNE 12, 2010
Our next event is June 12, 2010, Homestead Day on Penderlea. Please join us to celebrate our theme this year, "The Families of Penderlea." The festivities begin at 11:00 A.M. A barbecue plate lunch will be served following the program that includes music by the renowned "Gospel Lites". We=92ll have hay rides for the children in our newly restored farm wagon, a quilting demonstration by the Quilters-By-the-Sea from Wilmington, and displays of household artifacts, tools and implements. Raffle tickets will be on sale for a super deluxe gas grill, the proceeds going towards our National Register of Historic Places Fund. For more information, please see our newsletter on the Events page. Please come!

Recipes and Remembrances is a cookbook which was designed to honor the original settlers of the Penderlea Homesteads. It includes recipes and memories contributed by families of those original settlers, members of the present community at large, and special friends and extended families. Proceeds benefit the Penderlea Homestead Museum, a non-profit organization.

The book can be ordered by contacting Al or Carrie Owens, 5490 Horsebranch Road, Watha, NC 28478, by calling 910-259-7984, or by e-mail at aowens@ec.rr.com Mail order purchases will be shipped upon receipt of money order or personal check made out to Penderlea Homestead Museum. The price of the cookbook is $12, or two for $20. Please add $5.00 for postage and handling.