1719 Museum, Willow Street PA
| Address | 1849 Hans Herr Dr, Willow Street, PA, United States |
| Phone | +1 717-464-4438 |
| Website | mennonitelife.org/1719-museum |
| Categories | Historical Place Museum, Tourist Attraction |
| Rating | 4 3 reviews |
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1719 Museum reviews
3We did a Saturday afternoon tour, and we were amazed at the amount of historical information on the Mennonite culture. The tour starts with a video, and then you tour the Historical Herr site. I highly recommend this tour to anyone looking to better understand the history of the local Mennonites.
My daughter did the family tree. Found out my wife's family built that house. 11 great-grandfather.
So, the Herr House is now the 1719 Museum, and the Mennonite Historical Society is now Mennonite Life.for marketing reasons (geared to the superior 21st century sensibility no doubt) and that "society" is now deemed off-putting. In whose mind, this group of yokels, solely? A society is an association of persons, and only these misguided individuals apparently agonized that it supposedly excluded some fictitious group of people.
The tour itself was mediocre. Don't expect to learn much about the Herr Family or the house. Lots about the Indians, though. Apparently, our form of government comes from them. Really? Yes, just ignore Montesquieu, Rousseau, Locke, and all the Enlightenment philosophers. Likewise ignore the superior judgment of the Founders, who culled forth the cream of Enlightenment thought for our still-functioning government.
Typical small-town myopia, while trying to emulate some other group of people in the hopes of remaining "relevant. "