2013 Festive Foods: Hearth Cooking Demonstration

Join the Historic Odessa Foundation’s hearth cooks in the bustle of holiday preparations for a sumptuous Christmas feast. While parents enjoy the HOF Christmas exhibit and festive foods hearth cooking, children can join in storytelling in the Storybook Trees exhibit and then rejoin their families

2013 Festive Foods: Hearth Cooking Demonstration

Join the Historic Odessa Foundation’s hearth cooks in the bustle of holiday preparations for a sumptuous Christmas feast. While parents enjoy the HOF Christmas exhibit and festive foods hearth cooking, children can join in storytelling in the Storybook Trees exhibit and then rejoin their families

Wilson Store

"Wilson Store" History comes alive! The Historic Odessa’s school program offers educators a well documented, interactive and hands-on sampler of 18th century life in colonial Odessa. Although designed specifically with Delaware teachers in mind, our program is broad enough to accommodate schools

Fall Home School Day

Join us for a school tour sampler designed just for homeschoolers. Take your family back in time to explore the 18th century here in historic Odessa. Our site offers a unique and well-documented picture of early American life in a rural village that played a significant role in the mid-Atlantic’s

Spring Home School Day

Join us for a school tour sampler designed just for homeschoolers. Take your family back in time to explore the 18th century here in historic Odessa. Our site offers a unique and well-documented picture of early American life in a rural village that played a significant role in the mid-Atlantic’s

HOF Closed til March 1

HOF will be closed until March 1st. Please call (302) 378-4119 for more information.

Festive Foods: Hearth Cooking Demonstration

Join us at the Collins-Sharp House to experience the hustle and bustle of an 18th century kitchen preparing for the holiday season. Costumed interpreters will demonstrate open hearth cooking of delicious sweet and savory treats using the recipes, techniques and tools typical of Odessa’s colonial

Festive Foods: Hearth Cooking Demonstration

Join us at the Collins-Sharp House to experience the hustle and bustle of an 18th century kitchen preparing for the holiday season. Costumed interpreters will demonstrate open hearth cooking of delicious sweet and savory treats using the recipes, techniques and tools typical of Odessa’s colonial

Lecture: "Corded, Stuffed, and Quilted: Whitework in an International Context"

Throughout Europe and America, whitework quilts have been fashionable from the 17th century to today. Over this period of time, however, the designs and techniques used to create them have changed, as has the cultural significance of owning them. Come join us to explore the wide world of whitework

Holiday Candlelight Tour

Get into the Christmas spirit by attending a special evening candlelight guided tour of the holiday exhibit An Old English Christmas of Washington Irving at the National Historic Registered, Wilson Warner House. Compare the room interpretations with Randolph Caldecott’s 19th century illustrations in