Historic Schoenbrunn Village offers their annual Autumn Lantern Tours
Visitors are welcome to carry a lantern to light their way as they travel through the village along the fall foliage and luminary-lined paths.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village will hold its Autumn Lantern Tour on Friday and Saturday,
Sept. 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. and remain open until 9:30 p.m.
Guests will encounter costumed 18th-century storytellers as they tour the village’s 16 reconstructed cabins.
Visitors are welcome to carry a lantern to light their way as they travel through the village along the fall foliage and luminary-lined paths and explore each cabin. Costumed volunteers will demonstrate candle making, woodworking, sewing, corn grinding, butter churning, apple-butter making and musket firing.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village also will welcome local musician T.J. Marlatt, who will provide flute melodies as visitors are transported back to the 1770s. Visitors may purchase a CD of the performer’s music inside the Schoenbrunn Gift Shop.
Admission for the tour is $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and $4 for children age 6-17. Children age 5 and younger are free to attend. Historic Schoenbrunn Village members also may attend free of charge. Membership to the village may be purchased at the Autumn Lantern Tour and lasts for one year.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village was founded in 1772 as a Moravian mission among the Delaware Indians. With founder and missionary David Zeisberger, Ohio’s first settlement reached 100 cabins and 300 inhabitants. Today 16 reconstructed cabins are available to tour.
Historic Schoenbrunn Village’s last day of its 2019 regular tour season is Oct. 27. Special events include Spring and Autumn Lantern Tours, Children’s Day, Frontier Skills, Celebration of Colonial Arts, Colonial Trade Faire, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” Christmas in the Village and a traditional Moravian Sunrise Service for Easter and Lovefeast.
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.