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Tuesday 11am - 1pm Wednesday 11am - 1pm Thursday 12pm - 4pm Friday 12pm - 4pm Saturday 11am - 1pm

Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc.

Name: Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc.
Address: 365 S Ridge Avenue, Greencastle, PA, 17225, US
Telephone: +17175979010
Price range: Not Applicable

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Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc.

365 South Ridge Avenue
Greencastle PA 17225
717-597-9010

Allison-Antrim Museum is open Wednesday to Friday, noon to 4 pm and Saturday 10 am to 2 pm.

Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc. was founded in June 1994 and received its 501(c)(3) non-profit status in 1997. The 1860 historic Irwin house was purchased in April 1998. The museum highlights the area's Scot-Irish and Pennsylvania German heritage, along with Greencastle-Antrim's rich history, from the frontier days in the early 1730s, the Revolutionary War, slavery and the Underground Railroad, the Ci

vil War, WWI, and WWII. The Pennsylvania Department of Tourism has designated Allison-Antrim Museum an official site on the Pennsylvania Civil War Trails of History.

09/02/2026

Do you know...
~ Why we drive on the right side of the road???
~ It's PA History which became American History!
~ 234 years ago, in 1792 **the first law** in the United States requiring traffic to stay on the right side of the road was passed by the PA Legislature as a result of intensified Conestoga wagon congestion on what is **now** known as the Philadelphia-Lancaster Turnpike!!
~ So why do the British drive on the left side of the road?
~ The photographs are part of Allison-Antrim Museum's collections.
***The driveway has been paved by Ganoe Paving and is in "curing" mode. PARKING today when visiting Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc. today 10 am to 2 pm, is "only' on South Allison Street. Walk on the grass up the hill to reach the sidewalk on Ridge Ave and use the sidewalk and enter via the ADA accessible ramp.

09/01/2026

***This photograph was courtesy of the Lilian Besore Library with no further information.
Many lime kilns in this area were of this type of construction. This kiln was located on the Snively homestead near Shady Grove.
~ Lime kilns were prevalent in this area because of the "abundance" of limestone in Antrim Township.
~ Wood was used as the heat source in the kilns to burn limestone, which reduced the stone to burnt lime (aka quicklime) a highly caustic substance, mixed with sand to use as mortar.

08/31/2026

***Click the image for a bigger view.
How much time did you spend at King Playground during summers?
~ Playground Day 1946 - hoop rolling.
~ Bob Kugler is rolling the hoop.
~ William P. Conrad on the right is overseeing the hoop rolling race.

08/30/2026

RADIO was "king" in every household before TV got its foothold in America's living rooms.
~ Do you remember listening to the Merle Everts family - the Hilltop Harmonizers on WAYZ?
~ Circa 1952: Kneeling - Merle Everts; 2nd row - Linda Everts Murray, Junita Everts; 3rd row - Charles Schaff, Hylda Everts, Carolyn Hissong Waltz, Faye Everts Mentzer, Leo Peck.
~ Did you listen to them?

08/29/2026

***81 Years Ago!!
~ 1945: Alvin Hicks opened a body shop in the back of the Mason-Dixon Truck Terminal Rt 11 north of the Borough Line.
~ This photograph was taken "before" the Rt 11 bypass was constructed in 1954.
~ Texaco gasoline (as seen in the photograph) was sold at the M-D Truck Terminal.
~ Potter's Restaurant was located left of the M-D Truck Terminal doors.
~ 1947: Alvin Hicks added household appliances to his business at 650 N Antrim Way, Greencastle, PA 17225.
~ February 28, 1950: Hicks bought a Chevrolet dealership.
~ January 27, 1963: The building was destroyed by fire. By November 1963, a new garage and showroom was built and opened.
~ Kermit Hicks, Alvin's son, took over the Chevy dealership and when Kermit retired, Blaise Alexander purchased the dealership. The property is now a collision center.

08/28/2026

Long before the GA School Distrit.
~ Did you know Allison-Antrim Museum's 1.14 acre property was originally a subdivision of the Stover property, aka Tayamentasachta?
***Click the detailed photographs to see what it was like before the GA School District schools were built.
~ When subdivided & sold to Alexander L Irwin on April 3, 1860, the property was 14 acres & 76 perches in size and - was located "out of town."
~ A L Irwin called his property "Walnut Hill."
~ There was "no" Ridge Avenue as we know it today that goes from Route 16 to Leitersburg Pike. The Irwin's driveway faced the Leitersburg Pike, off of which, was the long driveway to the front door of the Irwin house. The front of the Irwin House faces south toward the Catholic Church.
~ The last two Irwins to live in the house were maiden sisters Margaret Belle and Sarah Annie, who passed away December 1933.
~ Cletus & Maude Zimmerman bought the property in September 1936. Over the ensuing years the Zimmerman's subdivided the property. The largest portion was sold to the new consolidated Greencastle & Antrim Township School District in 1959-1960, on which the GA High School, GA Middle School, GA Primary School, and GA Elementary School now sit.
~ The property had a white German bank barn, the one in the photograph, which was situated on the northern end of what is today the GAMS parking lot. Ridge Avenue stopped at the white barn.
~ So, now you know. 😉

08/27/2026

***Visit Ebbert Spring Archaeological Preserve & Heritage Park (12633 Molly Pitcher Highway, Greencastle, PA 7225) open daily from dawn to dusk. There is parking.
~ Pennsylvania has dubbed Ebbert Spring a "super site."
~ The trail has 15 kiosks which tell the Native American history, our American History, and the Archaeological History of Ebbert Spring.
~ Do you know what an Atlatl (at-lat-l) point and clovis point are?
~ An atlatl point (such as the one in the first photograph from the University of New Mexico) was found during archaeological digs at Ebbert Spring, south of Greencastle. Ebbert as in Ebb Tide.
~ The second photograph shows an Atlatl point in the "lower right." AND...
*** the oldest point in the collection is a fluted Clovis Point dated *10,000 to 9,000* BCE. The Clovis Point is in the center of the top row in the second photograph.
~ We are in the year 2026 - 2,026 years after the birth of Christ. Multiply that by five times plus an extra 10,000 years to go back to 10,000 BCE.....
*** Click the black/white diagrams which show how to use an atlatl.
~ Allison-Antrim Museum is open Wednesday to Friday, noon to 4 pm and Saturday, 10 am to 2 pm.

08/26/2026

Log homes from Antrim Township, Greencastle, and surrounding country sides.
~ Log homes were the most common houses for the working class.
~ Many homes from early times still standing in Greencastle and Antrim Township are log homes which have been covered with "modern" siding - mostly bricks over the years.
~ Do you live in an original log home?

08/25/2026

21 years ago on August 8, 2005 the hole for the foundation for the Barn was dynamited.
***Lower the computer volume. 😉
***Click pause to stop it from replaying if you share it on your page.

08/24/2026

Frame by Frame preparation for blasting the hole for the foundation of the Museum's Barn.
***Tomorrow - the video! 😉

Address

365 S Ridge Avenue
Greencastle, PA
17225

Opening Hours

Tuesday	11am - 1pm
Wednesday	11am - 1pm
Thursday	12pm - 4pm
Friday	12pm - 4pm
Saturday	11am - 1pm

Telephone

+17175979010

Website

http://www.greencastlemuseum.org/

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