Offered: Wednesday thru Friday, Year Around (One visit: 2 Hours in the Fall OR Spring)
Each child receives a David Davis Mansion Coloring Book!
In this field trip, students will take a detailed tour of the mansion and explore the differences between their modern home and community and that of the nineteenth century. They will:
- Discuss 19th century transportation and common technologies used for communication
- Explore the relationship between Lincoln and Davis
- Discover what makes the mansion “Victorian”
- Talk about the family, as well as the people who worked in the house, and all of their unique jobs/roles
- Think about what people did for entertainment and try out a stereoscope
- Try on some clothes/hats like the ones worn in the 1800’s
- Discover how the Davis family entertained guests and experience a historic tea service
- Learn about new kitchen inventions/technologies and food preparation techniques
