Pioneer Skills Festival
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Event Details
Visitors will be able to see and participate in skills used by pioneers in everyday life. Activities include hand dipping candles, butter making, tin punch, apple cider production, rope making and more. Pioneer Skills Festival is especially entertaining for children.
Join us in the Big Red Barn from 1 – 4 p.m. for this unique event. The activities in the barn are free.
The Reverend George B. Hitchcock House will be open and guided tours given. Tours are $5/person for adults and those attending high school.
Pioneer Skills Festival
Phone : 712-769-2323 (Always call and confirm events.)
Web: www.hitchcockhouse.org
Pioneer Life
Attractions and Upcoming Events
Historic Oakwood Cemetery
The Oakwood Cemetery on the east edge of Lewis is the final resting place of many prominent Lewis residents that aided freedom seekers during their lives.
Lewis, IA CemeteriesHitchcock House
The Reverend George B. Hitchcock House is the home of one of the anti-slavery leaders of the Congregational Church mission in western Iowa. Reverend Hitchcock used his home to assist in the safe passage of fugitive slaves (or Freedom Seekers)
Lewis, IA Historic Buildings