Annual Free Family DayYou bring your family, we'll do the rest! |
August 7th
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Free Family Day is a day for the Greenbrier Historical Society to give back to the community and its children. Join us on the lawn of the North House Museum and Archive for educational crafts, historic demonstrations, snacks, lawn games, and more! All attendees will be entered to win a FREE Escape Room from the Greenbrier Historical Society!
Try your hand at early tavern culture with card games or quill and ink writing! Learn how to spin and weave on our take-home spinning and weaving kits! Practice the Native American crafts of rope making and chair caning! There will be a free Pop-Up Farmer's Market from 12:30 P.M. – 2 P.M. Spend some tokens at the 2nd Annual Pop-Up Farmer's Market so your family can have a fresh and local dinner. The Pop-Up Farmer's Market is sponsored by the WVU Extension Service.
Light snacks will be provided. All activities are free and fun for the whole family!
Try your hand at early tavern culture with card games or quill and ink writing! Learn how to spin and weave on our take-home spinning and weaving kits! Practice the Native American crafts of rope making and chair caning! There will be a free Pop-Up Farmer's Market from 12:30 P.M. – 2 P.M. Spend some tokens at the 2nd Annual Pop-Up Farmer's Market so your family can have a fresh and local dinner. The Pop-Up Farmer's Market is sponsored by the WVU Extension Service.
Light snacks will be provided. All activities are free and fun for the whole family!
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2nd Annual Pop-Up Farmer's Market
Writing with Quill & Ink Stenciling Marbling Paper Rope Making |
Chair Caning
Paper Hat Making Yarn Doll Making Historic Lawn & Card Games Weaving Demonstration with Take-Home Kit |
Frazer's Star Hotel Tavern Room |
NOW OPEN |
James Frazer purchased the North House in 1836, an ideal location for Frazer’s Star Hotel. Mr. Frazer had already purchased the adjacent lot and built the Greenbrier County Court Library there in 1834.
The Star Hotel was popular among traveling judges and lawyers who could do their research next door at the library. To create the Star Hotel, Frazer more than doubled the size of the North House by adding on two additional wings of rooms for guests and various outbuildings. An 1854 description of the property stated there were two good cellars, an orchard, a vegetable garden, a fifty-horse stable, outhouses comprising of servants’ (enslaved) cabins, kitchens, a meat house, and a dairy. The hotel operated until James Frazer’s death in 1854.
Join us in the recreated tavern room from Frazer’s Star Hotel at the North House Museum. The Tavern Room serves as both an educational period room and an event space. Visitors will learn about the history of the Frazer family, the enslaved presence at the Star Hotel, and the role of hotels and resorts in the mid-1800s.
Try your hand at writing with quill and ink, or attempt a game of historic loo with your group. Enjoy Greenbrier Valley Brewing Company's Ole Ran'l Pilsner on draft in the Tavern Room during First Fridays and other special events.
The Star Hotel was popular among traveling judges and lawyers who could do their research next door at the library. To create the Star Hotel, Frazer more than doubled the size of the North House by adding on two additional wings of rooms for guests and various outbuildings. An 1854 description of the property stated there were two good cellars, an orchard, a vegetable garden, a fifty-horse stable, outhouses comprising of servants’ (enslaved) cabins, kitchens, a meat house, and a dairy. The hotel operated until James Frazer’s death in 1854.
Join us in the recreated tavern room from Frazer’s Star Hotel at the North House Museum. The Tavern Room serves as both an educational period room and an event space. Visitors will learn about the history of the Frazer family, the enslaved presence at the Star Hotel, and the role of hotels and resorts in the mid-1800s.
Try your hand at writing with quill and ink, or attempt a game of historic loo with your group. Enjoy Greenbrier Valley Brewing Company's Ole Ran'l Pilsner on draft in the Tavern Room during First Fridays and other special events.
This exhibit was made possible by the Greenbrier County Arts & Recreation Funds
The Road to Plenty |
NOW OPEN |
Self Guided and FREE to the public!
The Road to Plenty exhibit, in our updated wagon house, examines the economy of early colonial settlement in the Greenbrier Valley between 1770 and 1820. During this period the community had two economic systems. A subsistence economy in which people produced just enough to survive and a market economy in which people produced enough surplus that they could trade and sell. European settlers used both economic systems to improve their standard of living while relying on the knowledge and labor of the diverse Greenbrier Valley community. Settlers relied on Native American knowledge, the unpaid labor of enslaved people, and the ability of women to take on traditional and non-traditional roles. Visit the Coffman Covered Wagon, in our newest exhibit to see an example of early trade in action.
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The Road to Plenty exhibit has been made possible in part by grants from the West Virginia Humanities Council and the Jeanne G. and Lawson W. Hamilton Jr. Family Foundation
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The Jeanne G. and Lawson W. Hamilton, Jr. Family Foundation |
Conflict & Consequences:
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The newly crafted exhibit, Conflict and Consequences, will start by discussing the complex period of white settlement of Native lands in the Greenbrier Valley before moving on to the War of 1812, the Civil War, and World Wars I and II. We will view these national and international events on a local scale and explore their impacts on our diverse communities, the economy, and the land.
