Washington Crossing Historic Park
The riverbank where Washington's army crossed the Delaware on Christmas night 1776, kept as a historic village with the Thompson-Neely House, a grist mill, and soldiers' graves. Grounds are open dawn to dusk and the visitor center runs daily 10 to 5, about ten minutes up River Road from Yardley.
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Monthly Living History: Soldier Saturdays, Camp Followers
September's living history day looks at the women and children who traveled with the Continental Army. Reenactors in the historic village, four hours, free.
Monthly Living History: Farmstead Fridays, Tending the Flock
Meet the farmstead's flock of sheep and see how fleece became yarn, with a chance to try a drop spindle yourself. Free, eleven to three.
Hibbs House Garden Tours
The September walk through the 1700s kitchen garden. Late season herbs and seed saving, forty five minutes, led by the park's horticulturist.
McConkey's Market
Soaps, balms, candles, home goods and treats made from plants grown in the park's own kitchen gardens, sold for one Saturday in October. Money goes back into the gardens and their education programs.
Monthly Living History: Soldier Saturdays, Civilians in the War Effort
Eighteenth century tradespeople set up in the Historic Village to show how ordinary civilians kept an army supplied. Free, four hours long, and about a ten minute drive up River Road from Yardley.
Book Club
An hour of book talk at the historic park, early evening on a Monday. The calendar posts no room and no title, so call the visitor center before you drive over.
Monthly Living History: Farmstead Fridays, Preparing for Winter
Wheat threshing, pumpkin harvesting and putting food and medicine up for the cold months, done the 1776 way at the Thompson-Neely Farmstead. Free, four hours, and mostly outdoors.
Lecture: Roger Lamb's American Revolution, A British Soldier's Story
Don Hagist, who edits the Journal of the American Revolution and consulted on the Ken Burns documentary, walks through the memoir of a British soldier who fought on this ground. An hour, then questions.
Twilight Garden Tour: Poison, Potions and Folklore in the Colonial Garden
Historical horticulturist Anna Davis walks the Hibbs kitchen garden at dusk, talking through the poison plants, folk remedies and superstitions of a 1776 household. Timed to end right before the evening lantern tour.
Free Tours for Veterans
Veterans and active duty military with an ID walk the Historic Village or the Thompson-Neely House and Grist Mill at no charge, families included, plus free admission to Bowman's Hill Tower. The mill tour needs advance registration.
Book Club
The November meeting of the park's book club, an hour on a Monday evening. No room or title posted on the calendar, so call the visitor center ahead of time.
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A living-history museum in the 1877 A.M.E. church on South Canal Street, telling the African American and women's history most Bucks County guides walk right past. Storytelling here leans on West African Griot tradition instead of wall text, and you can catch the exhibits weekend afternoons or by appointment during the week.
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.
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.
