Historic Trappe
Three museum buildings along West Main Street in Trappe, the next borough over from Collegeville: the Speaker's House, the Muhlenberg House, and Dewees Tavern, whose five galleries hold Pennsylvania German furniture, fraktur, textiles, and pottery. Open Fridays through Sundays in summer, with Muhlenberg House tours departing on the hour from Dewees Tavern.
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Living History Saturdays at the Speaker's House
The last one of the season, Labor Day weekend. Demonstrations run ten to four and then the summer program closes until next June. Free, park on site.
Experiencing Independence: Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution
A two-day symposium on diaries, letters and objects left behind by mid-Atlantic families between 1760 and 1790. Run with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Ursinus College.
Experiencing Independence: Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution
Day two of the Historic Trappe symposium, with panels on wartime experience, religious perspectives and non-English sources on the Revolution. Held in the Dewees Tavern on West Main Street.
Harvest Fair
Live music, 18th century trade demonstrations, colonial kids games and artisan stalls across the lawns of two historic houses. Ten dollars for adults, kids free, parking at St. Luke's across the street.
Redware Ornaments Workshop with Emily Smucker-Beidler
Cut at least five ornaments from a slab of red clay, then scratch fraktur designs through the white slip using the sgraffito method. Ten seats, ages 13 and up, pieces fired and ready in four weeks.
Redware Ornaments Workshop with Emily Smucker-Beidler
The November session moves upstairs at the Dewees Tavern, reachable only by a flight of stairs. Same work: cut clay ornaments, scratch Pennsylvania German patterns through the slip, pick them up glazed a month later.
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Pennypacker Mills
Governor Samuel Pennypacker's mansion, a circa-1720 house redesigned and enlarged in 1901 by architect Arthur Brockie, runs free guided tours starting on the hour and half-hour, Tuesday through Sunday. The rooms are still fully furnished with the antiques he collected chasing early Pennsylvania history.
Historic Sugartown
Preserved 19th-century crossroads village with a general store, carriage museum, the circa-1805 Garrett House, and a working book bindery. Grounds are open daily 9 to 5 year-round; guided tours run Saturdays and Sundays May through November, with parking at 273 Boot Road.
Historic Summerseat
A 1760s mansion that served as George Washington's headquarters December 8 to 14, 1776, and was later owned by Robert Morris and George Clymer, both signers of the Declaration and the Constitution. The Historic Morrisville Society opens it for $7 tours the first Saturday of each month, 10 to 1.
