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•8.2.3.B: Identify historical documents, artifacts, and places critical to Pennsylvania history.