Frontier Culture Museum
The Frontier Culture Museum is the biggest open-air living history museum in the Shenandoah Valley. Costumed historical interpreters show the life and customs of the indigenous Native American tribes in Virginia, the arrival of the German, English and Irish settlers, and the painful journey of the enslaved Africans to the first permanent British colony in North America. Actual homes of the period have been relocated to the museum in Staunton, Virginia to show the progression of European immigration and the settlement on the American frontier.
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1820s American Farm
By the 1820s, descendants of colonial immigrant settlers were carrying American frontier culture to territories west of the Mississippi River. Westward expansion of the United States during this period continued to displace and dispossess American Indian communities, which often stayed just ahead of the latest wave of settlers. These settlers also encountered different native cultures and peoples as well as challenging new environmental conditions. The 1820s American Farm represents the type of farmstead the new generation of pioneers left behind on the old frontier.
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