Pittsburgh history events

Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps Performance & Summer Sunday at the Fort

Sunday, Jul 14 10:00a

The Plymouth Fife and Drum Corps, a youth fife and drum corps from Plymouth, Mich., will play at the Fort Pitt Museum on their 2013 East Coast Tour...

Ice Cream Social

Sunday, Jul 14 1:00p

Depreciation Lands Museum, Allison Park

Enjoy a day of special treats and demonstrations at the Depreciation Lands Museum's old-fashioned ice cream social, this year featuring a magic show and fleece-to-shawl demonstration...

Adventures in Pioneer Living Camp

Monday, Aug 5 6:00p

Depreciation Lands Museum, Allison Park

For one week, kids can live like a soldier, Indian, or pioneer! Each camp day features time to work on a craft, prepare foods, and learn the history, lore, and skills of campers’ chosen group...

Bake Oven Cooking Class

Saturday, Jun 29 10:00a

Depreciation Lands Museum, Allison Park

Amp up your summer camping trips and backyard cookouts as master colonial baker Ed Tutino shows you how to make an entire meal in a historic beehive bake oven...

24th Annual Festival of Lights

Saturday, Nov 30 1:30p

Festival of Lights Braddock Trail Chapter NSDAR, Mt Pleasant

View and purchase one-of-a-kind holiday trees beautifully decorated by businesses, organizations, and individuals at the historic Victorian-era Samuel Warden Mansion...

Compass Inn Kids: Explorer Challenge! Summer Camp

Thursday, Aug 15 10:00a

Compass Inn Museum, Ligonier

Set out on a journey west, become an innkeeper, and join the militia. Discover the skills that will help you find success in 1800's Pennsylvania.

ACFL & MH Annual Civil War Day – The Road to Gettysburg

Saturday, Jun 22 10:00a

Andrew Carnegie Free Library And Music Hall, Carnegie

2013 marks the 150 year anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. During the last weeks of June both Union and Confederate troops were traveling the roads of Pennsylvania headed north...

Native American Living History Weekend

Saturday, Jul 20 11:00a

Compass Inn Museum, Ligonier

Find out how the Native Americans found everything they needed to live in the water, fields, and woods around them...

Independence Day Celebration at Meadowcroft

Thursday, Jul 4 12:00p

Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village, Avella

Celebrate the spirit of 19th century rural America at Meadowcroft Rockshelter & Historic Village with old-fashioned summer games, open hearth cooking demonstrations, and a pie-eating contest.

Fourth at the Fort

Thursday, Jul 4 10:00a

Fort Pitt Museum, Pittsburgh

Celebrate the birth of our country at the birthplace of Pittsburgh...

The Urban Art Tour and Workshop

Saturday, Jul 6 11:30a

Carrie Furnace Complex, Braddock

Fillins, King, Fat Caps, Pieces. Learn about these graffiti terms and more during a special Carrie Blast Furnaces Urban Art Tour & Workshop focusing on graffiti found on site...

250th Anniversary of the Battle of Bushy Run

Saturday, Aug 3 10:00a

Bushy Run Battlefield, Jeannette

250 years ago, Col. Bouquet and approximately 400 soldiers march eastward down Forbes Road on a quest to save Fort Pitt...

With Babies and Banners: the Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

Thursday, Jun 27 7:30p

Historic Pump House (at the Waterfront), Munhall

This pioneering movie tells the once unknown story of how the wives, sisters, mothers, and daughters of striking male workers in Flint, Michigan, helped them win the Great General Motors Sit-in Str...

Continental Militia Living History Weekend

Saturday, Aug 17 11:00a

Compass Inn Museum, Ligonier

Stroll through the militia camp, practice drilling with the militia, watch camp life demonstrations. Watch skilled craftsmen demonstrate a variety of 18th adn 19th century skills and crafts...

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