Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life

Meadowcroft Museum of Rural Life
Category
Address
401 Meadowcroft Road, Avella, PA 15312, in the town of Avella in Washington County, PA, United States
Operating schedule
Open seasonally from May through October

Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life, preserves the history of life on the land in Western Pennsylvania over the past 16,000 years. Meadowcroft is one of Western Pennsylvania's wonderful, off-the-beaten-path destinations. Located in a sleepy hollow in the Western Pennsylvania countryside, Meadowcroft is home to a charming 19th century village and internationally-known archaeological dig at its Rockshelter site.


Plan a day trip and immerse yourself in 19th century rural life and tour the Meadowcroft Rockshelter to discover how the prehistoric people of the Western Pennsylvania region lived. Less than an hour's from downtown Pittsburgh; Steubenville, Ohio; and Wheeling, West Virginia. 


Meadowcroft Village


Take a trip back in time with Meadowcroft's carefully recreated 19th century village celebrating rural life. Visitors can experience how ancestors lived by spinning wool from our Merino sheep, dipping candles, celebrating an old-fashioned Indepedence Day in July, or participating in holiday-taffy parties. During your visit, you can witness a blacksmith forging red-hot iron or attend a class in our one-room schoolhouse.
 

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