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Community Resource South Side Historic Village. Hookstown, Pa. Khaela Butera. By PresenterMedia.com. South Side Historic Village. Actual historic buildings transported to site from county and surrounding area . Live period dressed volunteers act and explain
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Community ResourceSouth Side Historic Village Hookstown, Pa • Khaela Butera ByPresenterMedia.com
South Side Historic Village • Actual historic buildings transported to site from county and surrounding area. • Live period dressed volunteers act and explain • Currently school house, blacksmith, log cabin -Doctor’s office in restoration, barn finishing stage • Open spring- fall only • Saturdays, once a month • Free Admission • Offer field trips but like to limit it to 25 at a time
Mercer One- Room School • Live within 2mi • Called to school by bell • Walked • Began 9 am • Pledge • Prayer, Bible • Check on students, younger first • George Washington, Abraham Lincoln in front • Flag 48 stars • Pot belly furnace • Boy & Girl outhouses • Coal shed
Log House • Period clothing • Cook real meals on fire stove (from outside garden) • Average family night
Blacksmith Shop Demonstrations given Show old tools
Doctor’s office • Donated wheelchair (Dr’s office when finished) • Donated building used for feeding animals-corn husks using as covered bridge - Frame and top of barn taken from another old barn, the rest new
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8.2.3.B: Identify historical documents, artifacts, and places critical to Pennsylvania history. Teacher Resources • Great place for field trips! • Primary source artifacts • Real life experience DOing and ABSORBing history • Brochure of year-long events • Secondary source documents with further information available • Gives a visual into early-mid Pennsylvania living • Comparison • Students can reflect, think, imagine about living in that time period