Special Grey Towers tour focuses on family heirlooms

MILFORD, PA — Visitors to Grey Towers National Historic Site will get an in-depth look at some family heirlooms during a special Artifact Tour planned for Saturday, September 8, beginning at 1:30 p.m.

The Artifact Tour will feature explanations of many of the original items either left in the 1886 mansion or loaned by the family after they donated the estate to the U.S. Forest Service in 1963.

Pieces in the museum spaces of the home date from the 7th or 8th century to the 20th century, and illustrate the lifestyles of several different generations who lived in the home.

Grey Towers, former home of Cornelia and Gifford Pinchot, who was two-term governor of Pennsylvania and founder and first chief of the USDA Forest Service, was donated to the Forest Service by the Pinchot family in 1963. Reservations for the Artifact Tour are recommended and space is limited. Regular tour fees apply.

For more information email greytowers@fs.fed.us or call 570/296-9630.