About Poplar Grove
Located in southeastern North Carolina within the National Park Service’s Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, Poplar Grove is a historic house and museum — formerly a sweet potato and peanut plantation cultivated by the agricultural skills of the Gullah Geechee people. The current manor house, built circa 1850 by enslaved artisans, was restored and opened as a museum in 1980 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Foundation seeks to shed light on this pre-Revolutionary War planter family and the people they enslaved — whose labor, skills, and stories are integral to the history of the Lower Cape Fear.