Annual Spring Lantern Tour coming to Schoenbrunn
Historic Schoenbrunn Village will host its Spring Lantern Tour. Guests will encounter costumed storytellers as they tour the village’s 16 reconstructed cabins.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village will host its Spring Lantern Tour on Saturday, May 18 from 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Guests will encounter costumed storytellers as they tour the village’s 16 reconstructed cabins. Visitors also will get Moravian sugar cakes and sweet tea at the site of Ohio’s first school.
New this year to the tour, visitors will be able to journey into the woods along a candlelit path to discover a campsite outside of the village streets. Here participants will encounter and meet Brother John Heckewelder and learn his story of missionary work and life on Ohio’s frontier.
This season the village would like to highlight an addition to the site and church. The Dover Moravian Church presented the village with three Johann Valentin Haidt paintings. Haidt was a German-born American painter and Moravian preacher in Pennsylvania. His works were key visual representations of the life of Christ and were influential in bringing Christianity to life during the early years of the church. These reproductions are of the original three paintings that hung in the church from 1772-77.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village also will welcome local musician T.J. Marlatt, who will provide 18th-century melodies.
As a Lantern Tour tradition, visitors will find 18th-century re-enactors demonstrating musket firing in front of the Connor Cabin. Muskets will fire every 15 minutes until dusk.
Admission for the tour is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors, $4 for children age 6-17, and free for children age 6 and younger. Historic Schoenbrunn Village members may attend free of charge. Memberships to the village may be purchased at the Spring Lantern Tour and will last for one year.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village’s opening day for its 2019 regular tour season is May 28. Special events include Spring and Autumn Lantern Tours, Children’s Day, Frontier Skills, Celebration of Colonial Arts, A Night of Stargazing, Colonial Trade Faire, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Christmas in the Village, and a traditional Lovefeast for Christmas.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village is operated by the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum and owned by the Ohio History Connection. The village is located in New Philadelphia at 1984 E. High Ave., off of U.S. 250.
For more information call 740-922-6776 or 330-663-6610 or email Deidra Lute, Historic Schoenbrunn Village site manager, at deidral@dennisondepot.org.