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Heritage Day Fall Festival
October 20 @ 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates are excited to celebrate the arrival of fall with the Homestead’s annual Heritage Day event.
About the event
The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates are excited to celebrate the arrival of fall with the Homestead’s annual Heritage Day event. We are also thrilled to be debuting our new blacksmith shop bellows as part of this event, as well as partnering with the Exeter Friends Meetinghouse for open house tours. Heritage Day features a variety of eighteenth-century demonstrations, trades, and hands-on activities. These include gunsmithing, blacksmithing, open-hearth cooking, spinning and wool dyeing, quill pen writing, candle dipping, leatherworking, and the apothecary and surgeon. The ever-popular colonial musician Bob Mouland will be returning this year, and visitors can watch a demonstration of the historic Bertolet Sawmill. 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, while Bob Mouland treats guests to colonial music in the English parlor. Visitors can also tour the Boone 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 learn about the detailed work of a leatherworker and the skillful work of a gunsmith. Zimmerman Forge will be demonstrating blacksmithing with the newly installed bellows in the Blacksmith Shop. Make sure to visit the Apothecary presentation featuring a display of period medical instruments and learn about the role of the doctor and surgeon during the eighteenth century. Volunteers will also be demonstrating textile processing, wool dyeing, spinning, and quilting, and visitors will have the unique opportunity to tour the three-room Bertolet Log House.
During the afternoon, visitors will also have a chance to see the Bertolet Sawmill in action. The Sawmill is one of only three operating, water-powered, vertical blade sawmills in the United States. 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. The Exeter Friends Meetinghouse will be offering open house tours throughout the afternoon as well. Located a little over two miles from the Homestead at 191 Meetinghouse Road, Douglassville, PA 19518, the Meetinghouse is where the Quaker Boone family would have attended monthly meeting. The original log structure frequented by the Boones was replaced by the current stone structure in 1759.
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 (except service animals) and no smoking. Visit our Facebook page for up-to-date details at Daniel Boone Homestead. The event is presented and funded by The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates.
We are excited to have the following vendors joining us for Heritage Day:
Crafts & Specialty Foods
Edible Addictions
Hinterhof Farms
PaperPie
Spookhill Collective
Stonekeep Meadery
Sweet Faces of Art
Food Trucks
Munchiez Food Truck
Wow Wagon