The First Pennsylvania
Regiment will hold a flintlock shoot in the Rifle
Range - rain, sleet, snow or shine!
Charter Day - Sunday, March 14
Charter Day recognizes the day William Penn received
his land grant for Pennsylvania from King Charles II
of England in 1681. In observance of Pennsylvania’s
founding, the Friends of the Daniel Boone Homestead
will be hosting an open house and living history
program at the Daniel Boone Homestead.
Interpreters in historical garb will highlight the
importance of the famous explorer and pioneer,
Daniel Boone, and his family in the 18th-century
Oley Valley and Exeter area through historical
demonstrations of crafts and trades and aspects of
everyday life. Charter Day is a rain or shine event
and is free and open to the public.
Our historic area will be filled with volunteers
interpreting life in the 18th century. The Boone
House will be filled with the delightful smells of
hearth cooking. Visitors can learn about the life of
typical 18th-century women like Sarah Morgan Boone,
Daniel’s mother. They can hear and see the clang of
the hammer against hot iron in the blacksmith shop.
All other historic buildings, including the Bertolet
Log House and Barn, will be open to tour. The First
Pennsylvania Regiment will hold a flintlock shoot in
the Rifle Range, where visitors can learn of the
colonial militia and the firearms of Daniel Boone’s
day.
Women's History
Roundtable - March 21 at 2:00pm
In honor of Women’s History month, the Daniel Boone
Homestead will be offering a Women’s History
Roundtable on March 21 in the DeTurk Education
Center at 2:00pm. Admission for the lecture, which
is open to the public, is $3 per person.
All proceeds support the Friends of the Daniel Boone
Homestead.
The Daniel Boone Homestead is very pleased to have
the Director of Morgan Log House, Sarah DiSantis, as
our guest speaker for the roundtable. DiSantis has
done extensive research on the Haverford/Radnor
Meeting records and she will discuss the Welsh
immigration to Pennsylvania, the founding of
Haverford/Radnor Meeting as it pertains to Elizabeth
Morgan, Daniel Boone’s grandmother, and then recount
some interesting meeting minutes that show the
important role that the Women’s Meeting held in the
Quaker community. While the Men’s Meeting Minutes
dealt mostly with the business end of the Quaker
community, the Women’s meeting saw to the
community’s needs including assistance to the poor
and sick, heard “intent to marry requests” and more.
