Watch for 2025 Camp Schedule
Our Summer History Day Camp is a week filled with activities, presenters for children ages 8-12. Each year is a different focus on a specific time period. Past years have includes Native American and frontier culture, and a Civil War theme. Camp normally is scheduled for a week in late July of each year. Get application.
The theme for 2024 was, "Native American culture, colonial settlement, and the American Revolution." A whole host of activities were presented, including crafts and reenactors. These included a discussion of Native American culture with Tank Baird; a drumming circle conducted by Scott Atherton; an atlatl demonstration; herbology and medical practices with Sue Morris; spinning and weaving with Joy McCracken; and a discussion of toys of the period with Heather Hibbs.
In 2022, camp focused on the Civil War and 19th Century Life. Through a variety of hands-on activities and crafts, Day Campers learned about the Civil War and what it was like to live in the 19th century. Activities included: a day in the life of a civil war soldier and eating hardtack; Victorian calling cards, etiquette & tea; tour of Rowley House & Millionaires’ Row; creating a seashell covered box and designing a tee shirt; and, a visit from Queen Victoria.
The 2019 camp featured World War I & II. Scheduled activities included the appearance of a World War I 'doughboy'; a visit from a World War II soldier; and the arrival of Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Other activities included the history of flight (children creating a small balsa wood glider and testing their skills at 'piloting' it), a visit to the Williamsport cemetery, creating camp tee shirts and and writing present-day soldiers and creating care packages for them.
There is a fee and advance registration is required. For Historical Society members, the cost is $60. For non-members, the cost is $70. To register your child, call the Taber Museum at 570-326-3326 for an application or download an application. For more information, please call the museum.