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Boykins Museum
31584 Main St.
Boykins, VA 23827
Phone: (757) 654-9550

The Boykins Museum preserves the rich, rural railroad history of Southampton County. The 1840 train station serves as a country store with antique automobiles & other antiquities on display. Donations are welcome. Hours are variable...call 757-654-9550 to confirm.

Chippokes Farm and Forestry Museum
Route 634 and Route 10
Surry, VA 23883
Phone1: (757) 294-3439 Chippokes Farm and Forestry Museum
Phone2: (757) 294-3625 Park Visitor Center
Phone3: (804) 786-7950 Chippokes Plantation Farm Foundation
Email: cffmuseum@dcr.virginia.gov
Children Welcome

Within Chippokes Plantation State Park, this site has an antebellum plantation home built in 1854 as well as the Chippokes Farm and Forestry Museum. The museum showcases farm history and exhibits various farm buildings that represent various periods of agriculture and farm life.

Darden's Country Store & Smokehouse
16249 Bowling Green Road
Smithfield, VA 23430
Phone: (757) 357-6791
Opens: 8:00:00 AM
Closes: 6:00:00 PM

Open Monday-Saturday This classic country store and smokehouse has been in operation since 1952 and is still run as a family business. Visitors and shoppers can see hams hanging in the smokehouse and hear about how the hams are still cured today. They can purchase ham, side meat, country cheese, barbeque and peanuts. Feel free to browse, but shopping is encouraged!

Endview Plantation
Endview Plantation
362 Yorktown Road
Newport News, VA 23603
Phone: (757) 887-1862
Fax: (757) 888-3369
Admission Fee
Children Welcome

Built in 1769 by Colonel William Harwood, Jr., signer of the Virginia Resolves, this home has experienced the ordeal of three wars. The Civil War found Endview serving as a Confederate captain's home and a hospital for the Confederacy. Restored to its 1862 appearance, The Civil War at Endview Plantation interprets rural Virginia life. Group rates available. From January 1- March 31 the plantation is open on Thursday-Saturday 10am-4pm & Sunday 12-5pm. From April 1- December 31 Endview will be open Monday, Thursday-Friday 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-5pm, & Sunday 12-5pm. Closed major holidays. Located at Exit 247 from I-64, only minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and all Newport News attractions.

First Peanut Museum in U.S.A.
Rt. 460 West (near intersection with Rt. 40)
Waverly, VA 23890
Phone: (804) 834-2969

Story of peanuts through pictures, antique farm machinery and equipment.

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