Holiday Candlelight Tours 2024

You are invited to step back in time through the doors of the Historic Odessa Foundation and explore the Christmas traditions of yesteryear! Participants experience a special candlelight tour of our 2024 holiday exhibit. Additional Candlelight Tour dates include: December 5 - Reservations available

Petite Exhibit: Rockingham, Bennington, or Yellow Ware: A Pottery Collection

Collectors commonly refer to the mass produced brown glazed yellow earthenware pottery interchangeably with the broad names Rockingham and Bennington. Simply put, Rockingham has its roots with Staffordshire potteries in England while Bennington has its roots with northeastern potteries in America

Open House: Historic Odessa

Join us as we welcome visitors at Historic Odessa. The Historic Odessa Foundation is holding a free, Open House event this Saturday, August 24. Members of the Middletown, Odessa, and Townsend (MOT) community are welcome to tour through the foundation's historic homes and properties at 201 Main

Workshop: Quilters Day: Annual Sew-In

This daylong workshop provides the opportunity for quilters and other needle workers to come together with their materials and necessary equipment to sew and share fellowship. Work within the HOF Visitor Center and among the paintings of Laussat Richter Rogers. Participants may bring a bag lunch or

2024 Mahjong Mania

Mahjong Mania comes to Historic Odessa! Mahjong at Historic Odessa Please bring your Mahjong game (if you have one) and your Mahjong 2024 card Cost: $40, includes lunch catered by Cantwell's Tavern: RSVP September 25th. Please call 302-378-4119 or email registration form to jennifer.cabell

Flea Market at the Stone Barn

"One person’s junk is another person’s treasure!" Join Historic Odessa at the Barn (202 Main Street, Odessa) for its Annual Flea Market! Clean out your attic, basements and closets and join us for the resale shop of the year. All vendors are welcome! Each 10'x10' space is available for a $10

Holiday Candlelight Tour Hosted by Associate Curator

Continue creating family memories by participating in an exclusive evening candlelight guided tour presented by the associate curator of the Christmas exhibit, Peter and Wendy, at the National Historic Landmark, Corbit-Sharp House, celebrating its 250th anniversary (1774-2024). Enjoy hearing quotes

Holiday Exhibit: PETER AND WENDY

This Christmas continue the tradition of touring the distinctive holiday exhibitions of recreating scenes from classic children’s literature at the Historic Odessa Foundation. This year’s holiday vignettes are transformed at the National Historic Landmark Corbit- Sharp House, which is celebrating

Art Exhibit: The Colorful Paintings of Lee Kolbach (1928-2023)

Encounter the richly colorful paintings of the talented Delaware artist Lee Kolbach (1928-2023) from her private collection with several works on display publicly for the first time. The Historic Odessa Foundation is privileged to exhibit a selection of her still life and landscape paintings that

Petite Exhibit: “Cut, Shaped, Soldered & Used: A Tinware Collection”

Artisans in early America called tinsmiths crafted affordable tinware for the general public that included anything from kitchenware to lighting ware to storage ware. Discover a sampling of these antique objects made of sheet metal from the HOF collection and on display as a petite exhibit in the