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LEWISTOWN – The Mifflin County Historical Society announces the season opening of McCoy House Museum, 17 N. Main St., Lewistown.
The museum will open for the 2016 season on Tuesday, June 14 from 11am – 2pm, and maintain regular hours every Tuesday June through August.
Mifflin County’s colorful history is on display at the McCoy House Museum. Look for the new Native American exhibit featuring a wigwam, stone tools and interact displays on the basement level.
This exhibit was a hit with fourth and fifth grade students during the museum’s spring school tours. Students bring your parents or grandparents back for a look around.
The reorganized Military Room includes updated exhibits of the society’s Civil War collection, plus displays on Mifflin County’s Alamo defenders and the run-a-way slave Charles Ball who escaped to Mifflin County.
Ball’s biography, Slavery in the United States or Fifty Years in Chains, a best-seller before Uncle Tom’s Cabin, was originally published in Lewistown in 1836. See the rare original copy of Ball’s book in the exhibit.
Many examples of uniforms worn by Mifflin County natives are also on display, including the uniform of June Collins, WWII Army communication’s operator who unknowingly transmitted the D-Day landing messages in June 1944 while stationed in England. Look for June’s uniform and her story and photograph, donated by the Collins family.
On the second level, see the McCoy Parlor with a newly added Bunnell Organ, an instrument marked, “Lewistown, Pennsylvania.”
Walk around the renovated Cressman dollhouse in the Toy Room, see furnished rooms from a 360 degree perspective. Artifacts from local Boy and Girl Scout troops can be seen in the reconfigured Scouting display, also in the Toy Room.
The recently acquired Yeager Mill pancake flour bag is in the McCoy Kitchen.
The third floor has the McCoy Bedroom and 19th century McCoy Bathroom with a bathtub large enough for a flock of ducks!
See the Butler dollhouse overflowing with dolls and toys in the Textile Room.
In the Carriage House, the Fort Granville model has been cleaned and refurbished. Look for the Dipple Pottery display, there, too.
The McCoy House Museum offers so much more, so stop by for a visit and learn some of Mifflin County’s interesting story.
For further information contact the society office at 242-1022.