Local History

VIDEO: MOUNTAIN PARADISE – THE GOLDEN ERA OF THE DELAWARE WATER GAP 

ANTOINE DUTOT MUSEUM – 1.2mi
Art gallery and museum of local history housed in a charming brick school house circa 1850.  
24 Main St, Delaware Water Gap, PA 18327

QUIET VALLEY LIVING HISTORICAL FARM – 5.7 mi
Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm, is a non-profit, living history museum preserving 19th century Pennsylvania German agricultural heritage. Period dressed interpreters portray descendants of Johann Depper, re-enacting daily life on the farm.  Nestled on 114 acres of beautiful pastures, woodlands and streams, Quiet Valley hosts all the farm animals typically found in the 1800s.  Rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, cows, pigs, goats, sheep, a mule and Clydesdale draft horses live on the homestead. The buildings include an 1850s bank barn, the original farmhouse, a cabin, spring house, ice house, smokehouse, dry house and assorted smaller barns. Quiet Valley is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
347 Quiet Valley Rd, Stroudsburg, PA 18360
570-992-6161

POCONO INDIAN MUSEUM – 8.9 mi
The Pocono Indian Museum is the only museum in Northeastern Pennsylvania dedicated to showing the history of the Delaware Indian. The museum will both inform and, perhaps, shock you. It will show the North American history of man in Northeastern Pennsylvania from 10,500 B.C. to the contact period with European man prior to the American Revolution. It will show the Delaware Indian’s peaceful coexistence with other Indians. And, it will show you the shocking and short 100 years it took the white man to virtually eliminate almost all traces of the Indian’s existence.
5425 Milford Rd, East Stroudsburg, 18302
570-588-9338