The "Bennett Place," just a simple farmhouse near Durham, NC.  It was located between Confederate General Joseph Johnston's headquarters in Greensboro and Union General William T. Sherman's headquarters in Raleigh.  In 1865 the two officers met here and signed the surrender papers for southern armies in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida.  It felt strange to sit in the front room of the farmhouse, at a small table with two chairs and think about the immense decisions and responsibilities that were undertaken at that table.

It was the home of James and Nancy Bennitt (the original spelling of the family name) and the reconstructed farmhouse, kitchen and smokehouse recall the lifestyle of the ordinary farmer during the Civil War.

You can learn more about the historic meetings that took place and the history of the Bennett family at Link to Bennett Farm .