SPECIAL WALKING TOUR: HISTORIC HARMONY

Saturday, September 27
10:00 a.m. – Noon

$25 per person

This tour is limited to 20 participants.

Purchase a ticket below. Tickets will not be available after 11:30 p.m. on September 26.

Harmony, PA, is a small town with “big history,” to paraphrase its namesake museum. This burg located 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh is the site where the first shot of the French & Indian War was taken in 1753—at young George Washington. A group of Germans rebelling against the Lutheran Church immigrated here to create their own religious commune, called the Harmony Society, and established the town in their name in 1804. Upon pulling up stakes to move to a larger site father west a decade later, the Harmonists sold their land and the buildings they constructed on it to another separatist religious group, the Mennonites. How interesting to think that this place in what was once the wilderness of Western Pennsylvania was host to so many renegades.

The Harmony Museum preserves not only the history of the town, but also nine buildings from the Harmonist and Mennonite eras. Our tour, which will be led by Museum docents, will include several of these structures as well as others that tell the bounteous history of this humble place.

Tour meeting point:  Harmony Museum, 218 Mercer Street, Harmony, PA 16037

Tour ending point:  Harmony Museum

Please arrive 15 minutes before start time in order to ensure that the tour gets underway on time.

Accessibility:  Not all areas of the Harmony Museum are accessible to people with disabilities. The tour route is otherwise fairly flat.

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All tour participants under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Children under the age of 13 may attend tours free of charge. By purchasing a ticket for this tour, you acknowledge that you are physically able to undertake the tour, assume all personal risk during the tour, consent to being photographed during the tour, and permit PHLF to use your image in our communications.

All ticket sales are final.