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EXHIBITS & COLLECTIONS - Exhibits
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"Sawbones to Saviours: Civil War Medicine at Penn Common"
NOW OPEN- The York County Heritage Trust uses documents, images and artifacts, along with loans from the National Civil War Museum and York College to illustrate medicine during the Civil War. The role of the Penn Common U.S. General Hospital in York is explored using the papers of Dr. Henry Palmer, patient letters, photographs, original issues of the Cartridge Box, and medical artifacts such as a military hospital cot, medical bag and surgical kit, straight jacket and chaplain’s frock cot. Here visitors will learn of a frequently untold York County Civil War story.
Agricultural and Industrial Museum:
Marvelous Milk: From the Farm to the Table
Marvelous Milk: From the Farm to the Table, an interactive exhibit, allows children of all ages to milk a life-sized model of a dairy cow while learning how milk gets from the farm to the kitchen table. The exhibit features a milk bottle dating activity; weighing interactive; reading area; video about the history of Rutter's Dairy; and quotes and tidbits about York County's dairy farming traditions. Come learn and enjoy the fun at the Agricultural and Industrial Museum's newest exhibit. Do not forget to try your hand at milking the cow. Marvelous Milk was sponsored by Rutter's Dairy.
Bonham House
The beautiful 19th Century home of York's Bonham family is a window to the style, activities, and history of York during the Victorian Era and 20th century. Lawyer and painter Horace Bonham, his wife Rebekah, and their three daughters; Elizabeth (Bessie), Amy, and Eleanor resided at 152 East Market Street for over 90 years. The home is lovingly maintained with original family heirlooms, and Horace's paintings of genre scenes, and family portraiture.
Colonial Complex
The York County Heritage Trust's Colonial Complex consists of three historic buildings and one reproduction building that teach visitors about York's history from 1741- 1830. The Golden Plough Tavern, built in 1741, presents the significant role taverns played in the community as a hotel, restaurant and source of news. The Golden Plough Tavern highlights life for a working class family during the founding of the City of York. The General Gates House (c.1751), standing adjacent to the Tavern, reflects the year 1778 when General Horatio Gates occupied the house while the Continental Congress met in York. The rooms within the General Gates House are used to contrast the life of a working class family with that of an upper class general. The Barnett Bobb Log House (c.1812), which was moved to the site, exhibits family life in the1800s for a lower class weaving family. Across the street, stands the reconstruction of the Colonial Court House, which highlights the stay of the Continental Congress and the important decisions that were made in York.
Fire Museum
Stationed in the historic Royal Fire House, the Fire Museum exhibits more than 200 years of fire-fighting history in York County. Visitors step back in time as they move throughout the fire house apparatus room, harness room, lounge, pool room, meeting room and dorm to view a horse drawn fire carriage, an array of vintage fire trucks, firefighter uniforms, photographs and much more within the three-floor historic building.
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