Sep 20, 2018 2 min read

Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village will host Frontier Heritage Weekend Saturday and Sunday with extended hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

During Frontier Heritage Weekend, visitors can get a first-hand look at the everyday lives of 18th-century frontier tradesmen and discover the skills necessary to survive in the Western Pennsylvania wilderness.

Costumed reenactors will share how American Indians and European settlers borrowed ideas from each other to build a better life on the dangerous frontier. Demonstrations will include black powder firearms and musket volleys, 18th-century carpentry, open-hearth cooking and domestic skills, land surveying techniques, hunting and trapping techniques, hide tanning, and more.

Visitors can also test their skills at a tomahawk-throwing station, an important tool and weapon used on the 18th-century frontier.

Throughout the day, Meadowcroft visitors can step inside a wigwam in a recreated 16th-century Monongahela Indian Village, watch a blacksmith forge red-hot iron in the 19th-century Meadowcroft Village, and tour the Meadowcroft Rockshelter, a National Historic Landmark and the oldest site of human habitation in North America.

Admission is $15 for adults, $14 for senior citizens, and $7 for students and children ages 6-17. Children ages 5 and under and History Center members get in free.

For more information, visit www.heinzhistorycenter.org/meadowcroft or call 724-587-3412.