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Easter Egg Hunt & Opening Day at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Celebrate the spring season and opening day at the farm with an Easter Egg Hunt and spring activities. At 11 am and 1 pm, children 2–12 are invited to search the fields and collect eggs filled with surprises in an egg carton. Plus enjoy hands-on […]

Tickets Through Time – A Visit to Three Amazing Historic Sites

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Enjoy local history at three amazing historic sites: Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Historic Sugartown, Historic Waynesborough. Experience the daily life of a colonial farm. Discover a 19th century Chester County community. Follow in the footsteps of Major General Anthony Wayne. Ticket valid at all three sites […]

Tickets Through Time – A Visit to Three Amazing Historic Sites

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Enjoy local history at three amazing historic sites: Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Historic Sugartown, Historic Waynesborough. Experience the daily life of a colonial farm. Discover a 19th century Chester County community. Follow in the footsteps of Major General Anthony Wayne. Ticket valid at all three sites […]

Tickets Through Time – A Visit to Three Amazing Historic Sites

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Enjoy local history at three amazing historic sites: Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Historic Sugartown, Historic Waynesborough. Experience the daily life of a colonial farm. Discover a 19th century Chester County community. Follow in the footsteps of Major General Anthony Wayne. Ticket valid at all three sites […]

Tickets Through Time – A Visit to Three Amazing Historic Sites

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Enjoy local history at three amazing historic sites: Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Historic Sugartown, Historic Waynesborough. Experience the daily life of a colonial farm. Discover a 19th century Chester County community. Follow in the footsteps of Major General Anthony Wayne. Ticket valid at all three sites […]

Tickets Through Time – A Visit to Three Amazing Historic Sites

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Enjoy local history at three amazing historic sites: Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Historic Sugartown, Historic Waynesborough. Experience the daily life of a colonial farm. Discover a 19th century Chester County community. Follow in the footsteps of Major General Anthony Wayne. Ticket valid at all three sites […]

Tickets Through Time – A Visit to Three Amazing Historic Sites

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Enjoy local history at three amazing historic sites: Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation, Historic Sugartown, Historic Waynesborough. Experience the daily life of a colonial farm. Discover a 19th century Chester County community. Follow in the footsteps of Major General Anthony Wayne. Ticket valid at all three sites […]

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation’s 17th Century Day and Colonial Militia Muster

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Europe in the 17th century has outgrown its borders. Political and religious wars on the continent and in Great Britain have catapulted its people into the modern age. The Americas have been mapped and explored for more than a century, and the great Continental powers […]

Ghost Lantern Tours at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation invites you to an evening of strange sounds, candle light, and ghostly stories. Follow the torchlit path around this 1700's farm and face the darkness and weight of 300 years of human joy and misery through Delaware County’s most mysterious, scary, and […]

Ghost Lantern Tours at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation invites you to an evening of strange sounds, candle light, and ghostly stories. Follow the torchlit path around this 1700's farm and face the darkness and weight of 300 years of human joy and misery through Delaware County’s most mysterious, scary, and […]

Plowing Day at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

In the 18th century, farmers relied on draft (animal) power to do the first step necessary for growing crops: plowing.  Visit the farm as they plow their fields for our winter barley, wheat, and rye crops with help from our friends and team of Percherons […]

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Fall Fest

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Celebrate the fall season with CPP’s first annual Fall Fest! Enjoy colonial brewing demonstrations, cider pressing, pottery, music, and more. Fall Fest will feature Michael Carver, Colonial Brewmaster, Bob Deane, Wallingford Potters Guild, Willistown Conservation Trust, Forbes Road Frolic, and Philly Hots! Cost is $12 […]

Soap Making Workshop

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Learn about the soap making process used for laundry in the 18th century, including making lye using a lye barrel. Participants will make their own soap to take home. This workshop will be held outside, and they ask participants to dress comfortably for the weather. […]

July Fourth at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Visit Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation on July 1 and July 4th to celebrate our nation’s birthday! Join a disgruntled mob of revolutionaries, a gathering of Loyalists and Quakers who found themselves in the middle as they confront independence. Watch the colonists make a demonstration against the […]

Colonial Toys & Games Day

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Play colonial toys and games, explore the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation farm house, and see the heritage breed animals. The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is an authentic living history site with the purpose of enhancing understanding of 1760-90 farm life in Southeastern Pennsylvania by providing high quality, […]

July Fourth at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

Visit Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation on July 1 and July 4th to celebrate our nation’s birthday! Join a disgruntled mob of revolutionaries, a gathering of Loyalists and Quakers who found themselves in the middle as they confront independence. Watch the colonists make a demonstration against the […]

Opening Day at Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation

Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation Ridley Creek State Park, 3900 North Sandy Flash Drive, Newtown Square, PA, United States

The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation will reopen for the 2023 season on March 25! Did you know, until the year 1752, March 25th was New Year’s Day in Colonial America? Come out to the farm to celebrate this historic day. They will be plowing the fields […]