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Learning about dipping candles


Front door of the Navarre cabin


Father and son dipping candles



Kids learning how to do laundry in 1830.


Public Cabin Days visitors sitting in the one room schoolhouse.


Learning the finer points of quilting with Aunt Molly.


Pierre Navarre's home in Leeper Park East, South Bend.

Cabin Days
Grades 1 and up

The Cabin Days program meets Indiana Academic Standards for Social Studies!  
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The dates for the 2008 Cabin Days program are:

-Tuesday, October 14, 2008
-Wednesday, October 15, 2008
-Thursday, October 16, 2008
-Friday, October 17, 2008


Also new for 2008: Rain dates!
October 21 and 22

(Why October?  Well, after much consideration and many May Cabin Day program rain-outs we have decided to move Cabin Days permanently to the fall of every year.  The month of October, historically, is the driest month of the year.)

One of our most popular school programs is the annual Cabin Days program.  This living history program is designed to coordinate with social studies teachers who are teaching 4th grade Indiana history.  Cabin Days takes place at the Pierre Navarre log cabin in South Bend's Leeper Park East.  Pierre Navarre, considered to be the first European to permanently settle in St. Joseph County, built the cabin in the early 1800s.

During Cabin Days, Center for History volunteers, dressed as pioneers, demonstrate cooking, recreation and trades about life in 1830s Michiana.  Lively interaction occurs as students, eager to learn about pioneer life, ask questions of the pioneers they are visiting.  Students may stop to talk with the Navarre family who are cooking outdoors.  They might also be curious about the jars of sassafras root, rosehips, willow bark and leeches (careful, they're real!) that set in rows in front of Doc Hardman.  And the school marm always welcomes the children to her schoolhouse as she teaches lessons from The New McGuffey Second Reader.

To make reservations for Cabin Days or for more information, contact our Tour Coordinator at (574) 235-9664, ext. 239 or Click Here