A Regional Community Center
The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center offers visitors of all ages ways to learn about life in this area and about the history of the Schwenkfelders. Schwenkfelders were a Protestant group heavily persecuted in Europe that immigrated here in the early 1700s seeking religious freedom.
In our museum, visitors will see looms and lathes, paintings and plows, chests and cider presses—all various household furnishings and farm tools from the 1700s through the early 1900s.
Researchers in the library can trace their genealogy, and scholars will be amazed by 16th century religious manuscripts and printed materials in the collection. The museum and library are open without admission fees.
Besides exhibits, programs range from brown bag lectures on local and Schwenkfelder history to summer camps for kids, with the ever-popular spring Penn Dry Goods Market focusing on textiles.
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