Halloween at the Sanderson Museum

Step up on the old front porch of the Sanderson Museum, if you dare! On Halloween Night, the Sanderson Museum on Creek Road in Chadds Ford will be open from 6:00-8:30pm featuring some of the more bazaar and creepy items in the collection.

More than one museum volunteer has heard footsteps or felt a presence in the c.1838 house when no one else was there – perhaps spirits from past residents such Horace Quimby or Willard Sharpless, the one-legged blacksmith.

Visitors will be invited to find items such as the leather change purse in Jenny Wade’s apron pocket when she was killed by a snipers bullet at the Battle of Gettysburg; a piece of bandage from Lincolns mortal wound; part of the bunting draped over Lincoln’s casket; a penny run over by Lincoln’s funeral train as it passed through Philadelphia; a noose used to hang a murderer on Gallow’s Hill in West Chester in the late 1800’s; an “X” made on a card at midnight December 31, 1899 as the 19th century became the 20th; a1943 photo of Hanna Sanderson on her death bed, which later became the subject for a painting “Death on Christmas Morning” by Andrew Wyeth; sand from under the first atom bomb blast; Pieces of the U.S. Army B-25 bomber that crashed into the Empire State Building in the early 1945; a china mug showing General Douglas MacArthur with a symbolic sword in his back; a tombstone made for Chris Sanderson as a joke; the American flag that was placed over Hanna Sanderson at her death; a hyena head and an old bear’s head.

The museum is always free and the first 100 visitors will receive mementos of their visit.

IF YOU GO:
Friday, October 31, 2008
6:00 – 8:30 PM
Creek Road, Chadds Ford, PA.
Free Admission

View the creepy and bazaar in the Sanderson collection. Step up on the front porch if you dare!