The Centre County Library Historical Museum in Bellefonte has the following holiday schedule:

                        Thursday, December 24 through Saturday, December 26: closed

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Tour our museum during your Pennsylvania Room visit!   

 The Centre County Library & Historical Museum invites Pennsylvania Room visitors to enjoy a tour of the museum exhibition rooms as part of your research trip.

    The museum is open for tours during regular building hours, Monday-Friday, 10-5, and Saturday, 10-4. Two of the four display rooms, located on the second floor (stairway access only) of the historic 1814 Miles-Humes House, have been renovated in the past year. One of the areas is now the Textile Room, displaying woven and quilted and other fabric items from Centre County, including an array of wool coverlets made by Emmanuel and William Ettinger and Frederick Weaver of Aaronsburg in the early to mid-1800's.

    The textile display includes two recent acquisitions: a gift of two Ettinger coverlets in pristine condition from Ellen Burd of Kansas City. Ms. Burd received the coverlets through her family, the Marshalls of Buffalo Run, and wanted to return them to the county from which they came, for safekeeping and the enjoyment of museum visitors.

    The second renovated display room showcases an exhibit of Civil War artifacts from the museum's permanent collections, including a variety of items from soldier Simon Harper of Penn's Valley, Centre County. Harper was a musician in the 148th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, and his drum and various other items are displayed, including two intricately fashioned wooden picture frames that Harper made while he was in a soldiers' rest camp. The frames contain photographs of Harper and his wife.

    Tours of the Centre County Library & Historical Museum are free.

The Pennsylvania Room of the Centre County Library and Historical Museum is located in the historic
Miles-Humes home at 203 North Allegheny Street in Bellefonte. The collection focuses on Centre County genealogy and Pennsylvania history, and has a specialized collection of family histories, county histories, church and cemetery records, original Centre County records, newspapers, historical and genealogical periodicals, and the massive Spangler Collection of data on families of central Pennsylvania. See scope of collection for a more detailed description of the holdings.

Contact:
Pennsylvania Room - For further information or research inquiries.