Eventually filling the large E. M. Parker Gallery on the first floor of the History Center, Living On the Land uses objects, images, and other items from our past to show how the people who’ve inhabited this part of rural Pennsylvania have used the land.

Beginning with Out of the Mist visitors can see what once existed here, trace the arrival of the first humans, track the changes in the tools they used, and finally, note when the first people of European descent arrived. A partial replication of a log house depicts The Settlers’s Lot. Two cases and a partial replication of a carpenter’s shop outline the rise, fall, and reemergence of Forestry as an important part of the county’s economy.

Working the Fields explains the changes in farming. The flour sifter from the Burkett Mill in Oliveburg points to the importance of the grist mill in many of our smaller communities.

An important part of any economy is how people, raw materials, and products are transported. Moving Around in this place once meant a dugout canoe, a bracket dam, Indian paths, roads, the first logging railroad in Pennsylvania, and Lewis Earle Sandt, the first United States citizen to make an international flight.

Now under development are the final three sections, tentatively titled: Buried Treasure, Business and Industry, and Camp Life.

Bill McCracken and Carole Briggs with the Twyford	Jack Parker with thie William Long Rifle
preparing the Wood Shop lathe