Pender County Tourism attended the annual state conference on tourism, Visit NC 365. Click here for this week's tourism update from the conference.

Read this week's Pender County Tourism Update to stay in tune with all that's happening. Click here to read the March 7 edition. If you wish to add your email address to this free update, email tproctor@pendercountync.gov.

Penderlea Homestead Museum, located at 284 Garden Rd., is open every Saturday. The museum is a perfectly preserved Penderlea home built in the 1930s. While Penderlea is historic, so is its church, Potts Memorial Presbyterian Church. Penderlea was the first New Deal farming community authorized by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Proposed by Hugh MacRae, Penderlea was designed to give unemployed and tenant farmers...