Conestoga Bells
Bells were a common adornment to the harness of the horse. They were held in an arch attached to the collar of the horse, containing three, four, five or six bells. They warned of the approach of the wagon and were also for decoration and allowed the horses to be found in the morning after being ...

Conestoga Wagon
The Conestoga type wagon was first built by German settlers in the Conestoga river valley region of Lancaster County, Eastern Pennsylvania, in the 1730s. German immigrants in the same area also gave us the Pennsylvanian long rifle and large wooden farm barns. The first Conestoga wagons, also kno...

Crops in America
Maize was used on the farm in the early years but a market developed for it during the 1700s. By the 1800s, most maize was planted in flat rows and by 1820, it was being exported to Ireland in times of food shortage (get closer by clicking on the images). The crop was harvested by cutting the p...

Cunningham Springhouse
Abraham and Nancy (née Glasgow) Cunningham emigrated from Ireland and in 1810 arrived near Bakerstown in West Deer Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where they purchased 200 acres of land.  Like many other Irish settlers, they were attracted to the area by its low taxes and large tra...

Diamond brooch
This brooch can be viewed in the George and Angela Moore Gallery of Applied Art. Jewellery fulfils a number of functions including the obvious one of personal adornment.It can celebrate an event such as an engagement, a wedding, or an anniversary Image: Diamond brooch, French, 18th century. Click...

Draper's Shop
In 2007 the museum opened a draper’s shop, R.J.SLOANE, based directly on the original from Kilkeel in Co. Down. Today’s visitors can see the drapery shop as it would have been around 1907, complete with the weaver at work in the ‘shed’ at the rear of the shop.  &...

Emigrant Ship
Lying in the dock is a reconstruction of an early nineteenth century ‘brig’ modelled on the Brig Union which carried older members of the Mellon family to Baltimore in 1816, two years before Thomas Mellon and his parents emigrated.The brig was a two-masted square-rigged sailing vessel...

Fencing
As the great forests were being cleared to make farmland, their timber was put to many practical uses, one of which was fencing.  The split chestnut fence, adjacent to the Fulton House at the Ulster American Folk Park, was originally from Virginia (pictured left, get closer by clicking the i...

Fulton House
The Fulton Stone House was the home of Samuel Fulton who emigrated from County Donegal in Ireland in the early 1700s to settle in the township of Donegal Springs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. At that time Donegal Springs was a remote frontier outpost inhabited mainly by settlers from west Ul...

Hill's Chemist, Strabane
Established in Castle Street, Strabane between 1870 and 1885, the business of J Hill and Co. was listed under “Apothecaries and Druggists” and continued to operate as a chemist shop until the late 1980's. As well as the shopfront, the shop’s original fittings and furnishings wer...