Camden County - Pennsauken - Colonial Earth Day
Sunday, May 5 - Pennsauken, Camden County
Colonial Earth Day
The pre-industrial world had a different relationship with nature and this was especially true in colonial America. In those crucial days of early settlement, without a worldwide web or electronic communications of any kind, without internal combustion or even steam engines, one’s environment was the farmyard and the wider world was a rumor. Adapting natural resources, reusing and recycling were as natural as the raising of crops and hunting of game.
Burrough-Dover House off Haddonfield Road with its several acres of cleared and wooded ground, its trail down to the South Branch of Pennsauken Creek and its wetlands, will host our annual Colonial Earth Day event on Sunday from 12:00 noon - 4:00 pm, with the live educational animals from Freedom Center for Wildlife, crafts and activities for the whole family using natural materials, colonial and native lifestyle lessons with open-fire cookery, and the beauty of rustic nature on the spring-bedecked grounds surrounding the historic English Quaker home built of natural sandstone.
Historic Griffith Morgan House, off River Road, will also be open for this “First Sunday” in May with free tours and historical hospitality from 1:00 - 4:00 pm, so both our historic houses of Pennsauken offer lots of opportunity for fun on a fine spring day.
Admission is free and there is plenty of free parking too! Memberships and volunteer opportunities are available and donations are always welcome to help Pennsauken Historical Society sustain its own mission in our community.
Burrough-Dover House is located at 9201 Burrough-Dover Lane off Haddonfield Road near the Wyndam Road traffic light. Griffith Morgan House is located at 243 Griffith Morgan Lane off River Road between Delair and Route 73.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/PennsaukenHistoricalSociety or e-mail pennsaukenhistoricalsociety@gmail.com.
The pre-industrial world had a different relationship with nature and this was especially true in colonial America. In those crucial days of early settlement, without a worldwide web or electronic communications of any kind, without internal combustion or even steam engines, one’s environment was the farmyard and the wider world was a rumor. Adapting natural resources, reusing and recycling were as natural as the raising of crops and hunting of game.Burrough-Dover House off Haddonfield Road with its several acres of cleared and wooded ground, its trail down to the South Branch of Pennsauken Creek and its wetlands, will host our annual Colonial Earth Day event on Sunday from 12:00 noon - 4:00 pm, with the live educational animals from Freedom Center for Wildlife, crafts and activities for the whole family using natural materials, colonial and native lifestyle lessons with open-fire cookery, and the beauty of rustic nature on the spring-bedecked grounds surrounding the historic English Quaker home built of natural sandstone.
Historic Griffith Morgan House, off River Road, will also be open for this “First Sunday” in May with free tours and historical hospitality from 1:00 - 4:00 pm, so both our historic houses of Pennsauken offer lots of opportunity for fun on a fine spring day.
Admission is free and there is plenty of free parking too! Memberships and volunteer opportunities are available and donations are always welcome to help Pennsauken Historical Society sustain its own mission in our community.
Burrough-Dover House is located at 9201 Burrough-Dover Lane off Haddonfield Road near the Wyndam Road traffic light. Griffith Morgan House is located at 243 Griffith Morgan Lane off River Road between Delair and Route 73.
For more information, visit www.facebook.com/PennsaukenHistoricalSociety or e-mail pennsaukenhistoricalsociety@gmail.com.
