Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

The Sandburg family enjoyed living in the Carolina mountains along with a collection of 12,000 books and a herd of dairy goats.
“I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.” Carl Sandburg's free verse style of poetry, journalism, biography, children's stories, prose writing, and social activism provided a popular voice for the American people of the twentieth century.
Map showing location of park.
Rock wall rubble at dam
Front Lake Dam Repair Money Approved
The National Park Service has approved over a million dollars for Front Lake dam repairs at Carl Sandburg Home NHS. Funds will be available after October 1, 2024, which is the start of the new federal fiscal year.
Performers at an outdoor theatre
2024 "Rootagaga Stories" offered at Carl Sandburg Home NHSthis summer
From June 13 through July 27, free summer children’s plays return on Thursdays and Saturdays at 10:15 a.m. Apprentice actors from the Flat Rock Playhouse Vagabond School of the Drama will perform “Rootabaga Express!,” a musical adaptation of Carl Sandburg’s children’s books, Rootabaga Stories. There will be no plays on July 4 and July 7.
Blues musician on stage with guitar
Sandburg Music Festival Offers Mountain and Blues Music and Square Dancing
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site celebrates the annual Sandburg Music Festival on Saturday, June 8, 2024, from 10am to 3pm.
A view of the Sandburg Home as visitors enter the park
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A view of the front lake and Sandburg Home as visitors enter the park
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Dairy goats graze peacefully near the Sandburg barn
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A view of Sandburg's study as visitors see it today
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Spring-born kid goats greet visitors to the barn
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Two visitors enjoy a stroll through the trees on a park trail
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