Community Resource South Side Historic Village
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Community ResourceSouth Side Historic VillageHookstown, Pa
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Khaela Butera
• 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
•South Side Historic Village
• 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
•Mercer One- Room School
•School Cont’d
•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
• Visit Beaver County | Museums
•http://www.sshva.iwarp.com/
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
•8.2.3.B: Identify historical documents, artifacts, and places critical to Pennsylvania history.