Heritage Day Fall Festival
Sunday, October 20, 2024 • 12:00-4:00pm

The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates are excited to celebrate the arrival of fall with the Homestead’s annual Heritage Day event. This living history event features a variety of eighteenth-century demonstrations, trades, and hands-on activities. These include gunsmithing, blacksmithing, open-hearth cooking, spinning and wool dyeing, candle dipping, leatherworking, and more. The ever-popular colonial musician Bob Mouland will be returning this year, and visitors can watch a demonstration of the historic Bertolet Sawmill. The event will also feature craft and specialty food vendors as well as fall activities for children like pumpkin painting.
In the Boone House, volunteers will be cooking a hearty meal over the hearth, while Bob Mouland treats guests to colonial music in the English parlor. Visitors can also tour the Boone House and spring cellar and learn about the three families who lived there during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Throughout the historic area, visitors can learn about the detailed work of a leatherworker, the hot trade of a blacksmith, and the skillful work of a gunsmith. Volunteers will also be demonstrating textile processing,
wool dyeing, spinning, and quilting, and visitors will have the unique opportunity to tour the three-room Bertolet Log House.
During the afternoon, visitors will also have a chance to see the Bertolet Sawmill in action. The Sawmill is one of only three operating, water-powered, vertical blade sawmills in the United States. It was moved to the Homestead in 1972 from its original location in the Oley Valley. In addition to demonstrations and trades, there will be a variety of eighteenth-century hands-on activities for children and adults to enjoy including candle dipping, quill pen writing, and colonial toys and games.
Admission: Adults $12.00, Seniors (65+) $10.00, Youth (6-17) $5.00.  Children 5 and under and DBHA members are free. Please, no pets (except service animals) and no smoking. Visit our website or Facebook page for up-to-date details – www.thedanielboonehomestead.org and Daniel Boone Homestead on Facebook.
The event is presented and funded by The Daniel Boone Homestead Associates.
The Daniel Boone Homestead is the birthplace of the famed frontiersman, born in 1734. The Boone House, constructed in three stages throughout the eighteenth century, is a 10-room stone structure fully furnished to the period and situated on 579 acres of rolling countryside. The Daniel Boone Homestead is located halfway between Reading and Pottstown, one mile north of Rt. 422 near Baumstown. The Homestead is owned by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, and daily historic operations are run by the Daniel Boone Homestead Associates, a local, nonprofit organization. If you would like more information or would like to make a donation, please contact the
Daniel Boone Homestead at 610-582-4900.