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.
