Bradford House Museum — Attraction in Washington

My visit in January whetted my appetite to learn more about the Whiskey Rebellion. I was able to return this summer. Kate was gracious enough to show me through the house and museum even though it was outside their normal hours. She was a wealth of good information. She does the cooking in the detached kitchen Chen for their living history events and I’d like to come back for their Whiskey Rebellion festival some time in the future and to see what kind of good food she’s rustling up. Be sure to check out the neat mural in the...

The Bradford House in Washington PA was the home of David Bradford, an attorney in the 1790s and an instrumental figure in the Whiskey Rebellion. This was the movement to protest unfair taxes that the Federal Government was imposing on farmers in western PA who depended on selling whiskey as a livelihood.

Although the public areas of the house are limited to the first floor, you do get a good sense of what it was like to live there at that time. The outside spaces include a wishing will and some gardens.

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Bradford House is a museum and National Historic Landmark that is open for tours. The house was built by the lawyer David Bradford in 1788. For our tour, two docents who were dressed in period clothing walked us through the foyer, parlor, dining room, stairwells, sewing room, children's room, master bedroom, servants' quarters, backyard garden, log kitchen cabin, and gift shop. The docents' narration about history, architecture, furniture, etcetera was very educational and...