Heritage Farm Museum and Village, Open-air living history museum in Huntington, United States.
Heritage Farm Museum and Village is an open-air museum in Huntington, West Virginia, with seven main museum buildings and a collection of historic log structures. The site includes a blacksmith shop, a barn, log cabins, a sawmill, and other buildings moved from around the region. Since 2021 it has also had a high-ropes course and a zip line.
Mike and Henriella Perry moved from Huntington to a Harveytown farmhouse in 1973, where logs found beneath the walls sparked their study of cabin building and antiquing. Their private collection, first kept in a nearby barn, grew into an outdoor village of old structures. Heritage Farm opened to the public with the first May Festival on May 4, 1996, and was the only annual opening day until 2006.
Local artisans practice broommaking, weaving, printing, tinsmithing, woodworking and blacksmithing with authentic antique equipment. Some give occasional classes in the basics of their craft. The village also hosts old-time music festivals, cast-iron cookoffs and Hatfield and McCoy weekends.
The village is open on Fridays and Saturdays from May through October, and on four December evenings for Christmas Village. The Adventure Park, added in 2021, has high-ropes courses and a zip line; reservations are the only way to guarantee a timeslot. The grounds are spread across open terrain, so allow time to walk between buildings.
Overnight stays are possible on the grounds, either in log cabins built with 19th-century materials and methods, or in a restored 1940s railway caboose parked on the property. Sleeping in either option means waking up surrounded by the same landscape and structures that fill the rest of the visit.
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