00:25 - Farm life was heart.

00:27 - Not many people realized that

00:29 - they were working

00:31 - from sunup

00:32 - to sundown the only day that they would maybe

00:35 - be able to take a break as on the salmon.

00:49 - Name of the mahler jobs and I serve as executive director

00:53 - you're at morgan log hours in lansdale pennsylvania.

00:57 - So griffith drawings

00:59 - here he was a merchant from philadelphia he actually did a lot of the jobs that.

01:06 - People didn't want to do especially in colonial times he was

01:10 - on the city council in philadelphia and he was the mayor of

01:14 - philadelphia for a period of time but through the commissioners of well william penn

01:20 - he received

01:22 - about six hundred acres of land

01:25 - here and torments

01:26 - township and that was on seventeen o two.

01:30 - So we don't know

01:31 - much of what griffith did while he owned the property he only owned the property from

01:37 - seventeen o two to seventeen o and seventeen o eight he sold it to edward morgan

01:44 - adams morgan is originally from wales

01:46 - and there are.

01:48 - A little discrepancy a on which edward morgan and when

01:52 - he came through philadelphia because when we look through

01:57 - the

01:58 - boat records and

02:00 - deed the history of that time in philadelphia

02:03 - there's actually three edward morgan's I come around

02:07 - but are edward morgan here that we have go on to eventually get more information on

02:13 - becomes a maternal grandfather to daniel boone.

02:17 - I'm

02:17 - from the morrigan line we also get the

02:21 - journalist lol thomas

02:23 - and we get mutual fund

02:27 - pioneer

02:28 - walter I morgan who was one the founders of the vanguard group.

02:33 - If.

02:38 - So originally when this house was

02:40 - discovered in nineteen seventies

02:43 - they thought the morgan family actually built the home

02:46 - it wasn't until two thousand when we had the logs.

02:50 - Carbon dated so we had dendrochronology do done to the logs

02:55 - where they came back to seventeen and seventy

02:57 - and so at that time the morgans were no longer cute

03:02 - and

03:03 - seventeen seventy

03:05 - the

03:05 - morgan family sold the property

03:08 - to john j cole

03:10 - and john was on the property from seventeen seven eighty two seventy

03:14 - seventy four

03:16 - so when we're looking at the building itself.

03:19 - We have the logs that date to seventeen seventy

03:22 - we and we see that john naples here

03:25 - the first time anything is kind of mentioned

03:28 - a dwelling or something with fair improvements

03:32 - is when

03:33 - dj johnny aco sells the property in seventeen seventy four to the castles so long

03:39 - story short when the house was first found

03:42 - they thought that the morgan family were the ones

03:45 - to build that and that's why you look at some

03:48 - information from the past

03:50 - ill have those that kind of inflammation and it wasn't that those historians

03:55 - are

03:56 - giving wrong information

03:58 - they were using the tools and technology that

04:01 - was available to them.

04:04 - So the property I

04:07 - had different owners but also had different

04:09 - tenants one of the tenants included the lampert

04:12 - family in the nineteen forties

04:16 - and we

04:17 - added.

04:18 - It was actually the property was broken into two

04:21 - different rental properties so the law doghouse side

04:25 - on one tenant

04:26 - and I know our

04:28 - victorian wing where our visitor center is now

04:31 - had another tenant and

04:33 - so it changed hands it was lived in

04:37 - basically from seventeen seventy four all the way till nineteen sixty four.

04:43 - Castle family when they lived here

04:46 - added exterior siding to the home and and it's image you can actually see that citing

04:52 - so from the eighteen hundreds

04:54 - all the way

04:54 - from nineteen sixty four

04:56 - no one knew that the log house was under neat and.

05:00 - I

05:01 - Had slate sighting for a period of time

05:04 - woods sighting for a period of time

05:06 - and it wasn't until the nineteen seventies when the developer nash

05:11 - purchased all the property around morgan log house

05:14 - and built this whole subdivision behind us today

05:18 - when it was a local resident

05:20 - who came to nash and said I think this is

05:24 - his store property

05:25 - they walked along the property they pulled off some of that sighting

05:30 - and that's when they found the log house under me

05:33 - so from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy six

05:36 - they restored the home back to it's original glory.

05:42 - When we opened the door and we go into the past

05:45 - I always welcome people to seventeen seventy four

05:48 - and when we step in we step into the kitchen

05:51 - and in the kitchen we have our hearth which is the original

05:55 - earth for the home we have the original mantle as well

06:00 - and as well well as the support beam going across the whole realm

06:04 - so when we walk into the kitchen.

06:08 - It's important to talk about how they cooked back then

06:12 - because it's very very different and so when a woman

06:15 - was cooking she wouldn't just use the fire underneath

06:19 - the pot

06:20 - in the hearth

06:21 - what she would do is pull out those m embers and put

06:25 - them all along the slate stone right in the front

06:28 - but we have to remember.

06:30 - Women at this time are wearing long dresses and if

06:34 - you have those hot embers out in front of your heart.

06:38 - You think your skirts going to get caught on fire

06:40 - the answer

06:41 - yes.

06:42 - So actually fire was the number two cause of death for women in colonial time

06:48 - and cause we forget they're wearing these big skirts we have live

06:52 - candles we have fires going

06:54 - and most of the time it was an accident

06:57 - so she would be cooking she did have different tools

07:01 - it would allow her to reach the pot and have a pullover

07:05 - so she could see what was kind of going on

07:08 - in there when we go into the kitchen we also see this very very large table that

07:16 - tables are originally from the sixteen hundreds

07:19 - it's actually have a spanish design time

07:22 - and she was gifted to the sites and it's a little bit

07:25 - bigger than what the family typically would have had

07:29 - but they would have had a table in there because we have to remember

07:33 - farm life

07:34 - you are preparing for winter

07:36 - all year

07:38 - long

07:38 - so they would be using that table for salty you need

07:42 - a.

07:43 - Picholine

07:44 - getting everything ready for storage that they can make it through the winter because

07:49 - winters were a lot harder than the winters that we see today we have to remember that

07:55 - and as you continue through the kitchen we have a

07:58 - beautiful hutch that is a great exam full of that

08:03 - pennsylvania dutch cabin tree

08:06 - on there we have our pennsylvania red where which is going to be or you're very

08:12 - basically what every family would have used for

08:15 - dining at this time if you know about pennsylvania

08:18 - pa dig anywhere you're basically can get red clay

08:22 - and and so that is what they would have used to make their dishes and.

08:28 - Their drinking vessels as well if you are a

08:31 - wealthy family you would have had pewter as well

08:34 - on that cabinet we can see the mold for the candles.

08:39 - Many people don't realize that it's you or just an everyday working family

08:45 - your candles would have made been made out of tallow

08:48 - and tallow is actually animal fat

08:50 - so when you burn it it actually smells like hamburgers a little bit

08:55 - and so it attracts little mice and so the last thing I always loved to point out in

09:00 - the kitchen is we have a replica have a mousetrap

09:03 - from the eighteen hundreds and.

09:07 - They would have

09:09 - tried to catch mice and handle vermin just like

09:12 - we do today so it's very interesting to see

09:16 - that

09:17 - the similarities to the past to the present.

09:20 - So this is a replica of a mouse trap that would have been used in the eighteen

09:24 - hundreds as I said candles during this time would have been

09:27 - made out of tallow which is the animal fat so of course

09:31 - when you burn that it smells like hamburgers so in entice little mice

09:36 - so that's when they would have mouse traps like this

09:39 - so it'd be set up just like this a mouse would

09:41 - go through and step on the paddle which is within

09:45 - when that paddle is set.

09:47 - It goes down like that

09:49 - and not as how they would have caught mice.

09:54 - As you go up the stairs I like to remind everyone that originally the second floor

09:59 - would have been all the bedrooms for the children at it's height

10:03 - there were ten kids

10:05 - sleeping up there

10:06 - we after remember one room would have been for boys

10:09 - another room would have been for girls

10:12 - muslim

10:13 - everyone would have shared one bed

10:15 - because he.

10:17 - They have one stove on the second floor

10:19 - so in wintertime it could get pretty cold up there

10:24 - I when I came on as the director and twenty twenty three

10:27 - I wanted them to become cultural exhibits I wanted to show how the family

10:32 - connected to the greater township and the county so as you go up the steps our first

10:38 - exhibit is called from farm to fashion

10:41 - so.

10:42 - Not many people realize that all of our clothes basically used to start on a farm

10:48 - and so both

10:50 - the morgans and the castles were in the textile industry

10:53 - so they grew flax they had she a sheep here for wall

10:58 - so as you go into what was our back bedroom

11:01 - and we highlight the three archaeological digs that we've had europe on site so first

11:07 - then the seventieth second in the eighties

11:09 - third in the nineties and what.

11:12 - I think is fine about our archaeological digs if we find things from.

11:18 - Seventeen eighteen hundreds all the way tall nineteen fifty nineteen sixty and in our

11:24 - case upstairs we have nail polish from the

11:27 - nineteen thirties we have pieces of necklaces

11:31 - we have a tractor shock absorber or

11:34 - a butchered

11:35 - pig jaw and one of my favorite

11:39 - pieces I like to point out is a gravy boat that is completely all in one piece so

11:44 - many times when people think archaeological digs

11:47 - it's all broken things no it's a mix between

11:50 - whole

11:51 - broken

11:53 - and this year

11:54 - to start getting people interested in history that's under their feet

11:59 - we did a metal detecting workshop so actually five of the items that are on display

12:04 - up there were actually found here last month

12:07 - and the oldest thing we found was a piece of a car from the nineteen forties.

12:12 - If.

12:23 - Morgan log house is one of the

12:25 - hidden gems I feel in our community

12:29 - we've been here for over two hundred and fifty years but when you at.

12:33 - People that live in lansdale if they've ever

12:36 - been to oregon log house or even furtive at

12:39 - most of them say

12:40 - no.

12:40 - I haven't

12:41 - and then once you start telling the geography then

12:44 - they're like oh I think I've driven past that before

12:47 - so that's one thing that when I came on as I wanted the site to be

12:52 - a.

12:52 - Part of.

12:54 - I wanted and.

12:56 - We need to keep history alive

12:58 - in our community and one of the ways that we can do it is

13:02 - making history fun

13:03 - and and so we do this by

13:07 - doing different types of public programs so this year we introduced a murder mystery

13:12 - dinner that take place in the nineteen thirties because we

13:17 - have an oral history and photos from the family

13:20 - that lived here in the nineteen thirty and.

13:24 - We're adding a harvest heritage day this october

13:28 - so just coming up with ways to make

13:31 - history fun because history is living

13:35 - breathing it's everywhere around us it's not just

13:38 - houses and people it's

13:40 - looking at the landscape and why was this house built

13:43 - here this house was built here because it was on a spring

13:47 - and that gave them fresh water and that gave them refrigeration

13:52 - I really want this place and

13:55 - focal point in the community I don't want us to be

13:58 - his

13:59 - hidden historical site I want people to feel comfortable to bring

14:05 - a picnic and sit with their family on the ground.

14:09 - So.

14:10 - A lot of my programming I'm trying to put in is

14:14 - a blending of the past

14:16 - with the present

14:18 - so we can kind of

14:19 - allow people to stumble upon the fat pass instead of just being like here

14:25 - come learn history.