Frontier Culture Museum Guidebook
The purpose of this guidebook is to provide readers with an appreciation of the outdoor living-history museum that is devoted to the recreation of American culture on the early western frontier.
The idea that guided the Museum's historical interpretation is one of intermingling three principal ethnic groups - Germans, Scotch-Irish, and English - on the frontiers of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. These groups pushed settlement into the interior after 1730, which resulted in the creation of a distinct American culture and landscape during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Frontier Heritage Cookbook
The Museum sponsors a variety of special programs highlighting foods and cooking, and each year, several dinners are held which offer visitors tasty and unique menus adapted from old recipes.
The Museum community has enthusiastically embraced the creation of a Museum cookbook which offers recipes from museum friends and founders, staff members, volunteers, community cooks and of course, the historic farmsites.
The Great Wagon Road
By: Parke Rouse, Jr.
This book was first published in 1973 as part of its "Great American Trails" series. It was instantly recognized for its insight into the birth of the American South, from the early 1700s until the Civil War.
Over the years the road led countless Scotch-Irish, Germanic, and English settlers southward from Philadelphia to settle the Appalachian uplands from Pennsylvania to Georgia.
The Scotch Irish: A Social History
By: James G. Leyburn
Dispelling much of what he terms the "mythology" of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage.
He traces their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland; and their successive migrations to America, where many settled in the backcountry of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, before joining the flow of pioneers westward in the wake of the Revolutionary War.
Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
By: David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly
Based on an acclaimed exhibition at the Virginia Historical Society, the book studies three stages of migration to, within, and from Virginia.
Each stage has its own story to tell. Together they offer an opportunity to study the westward movement through three centuries, as it has rarely been studied before.
