October 20, 2024
Heritage Day
Sunday, October 20, 2024
12 - 4pm
The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates are excited to celebrate the arrival of fall with the Homestead’s annual Heritage Day event. This living history program features a variety of eighteenth-century demonstrations, trades, and hands-on activities. These include gunsmithing, open hearth cooking, spinning and wool dyeing, candle dipping, leatherworking, and more. The ever-popular colonial musician Bob Mouland will be joining us again this year and the Bertolet Sawmill be run twice throughout the afternoon. The event will also feature craft and specialty food vendors as well as fall activities for children like pumpkin painting.
In the Boone House, volunteers will be cooking a hearty meal over the hearth and visitors can tour the house and spring cellar and learn about the three families who lived there during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Throughout the historic area, visitors can watch eighteenth-century wool dyeing, spinning, gunsmithing, and leatherworking demonstrations. Visitors will have the unique opportunity to tour the three-room Bertolet Log House.
The Bertolet Sawmill will be run throughout the afternoon – at 1:00 and 3:00pm – and visitors will get to see this rare piece of machinery in action. The Sawmill is one of the oldest operating water-powered vertical blade sawmills in Pennsylvania. It was moved to the Homestead in 1972 from its original location in the Oley Valley. In addition to demonstrations and trades, there will be a variety of eighteenth-century hands-on activities for children and adults to enjoy including candle dipping, quill pen writing, and colonial toys and games.
Admission: Adults $12.00, Seniors (65+) $10.00, Youth (6-17) $5.00. Children 5 and under and DBHA members are free.
Please, no pets and no smoking.
The event is funded and presented by The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates.
