Durham, North Carolina - Tobacco Museum: Farmer Robot
- Address:
- 2828 Duke Homestead Rd., Durham, NC [Show Map]
- Directions:
- Duke Homestead and Tobacco Museum. Northwest edge of the city. I-85 exit 175. North on Guess Rd for a quarter-mile, then right on Duke Homestead Rd for a half-mile.
- Phone:
- 919-477-5498
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He was amazingly creepy. [d, 07/30/2008]
Durham, North Carolina - Tobacco Museum - Scary Voice of Tobacco In Durham, NC there is a Tobacco Museum on the grounds of the Duke
Homestead. Built in the 70's, the museum contains a lot of pretty
run of the mill tobacco memorabilia. The one thing worth seeing is the
talking farmer mannequin. He's a little larger than life sized, and when
you push the button, he starts talking, gesticulating, and swerving his
head around with the kind of movements found only in automatons. We saw
one little kid who was delighted, and one who was absolutely terrified.
Once he's done with his speech, the lights dim and he settles down, only
to jerk and move one last time. [Dean Jeffrey, 06/13/2001]
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- Neglected Dinosaur Statue, Durham, NC - 1 mi.
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