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Plantation Plenty & More Bus Tour

Visit three of Western Pennsylvania’s most historic homes on July 23 in a “once-only” tour with Pittsburgh History and Landmark Foundation (PHLF). The organization has been influential in saving and supporting the preservation of all three of the tour locations, through easements and other strategies that Jack Miller, director of Gift Planning/Easements, will discuss during the tour.

The tour will leave from Station Square and head to “Woodville Plantation,” the c. 1775 John and Presley Neville house in Collier Township, where PHLF Trustee Anne Genter will escort the group on a tour of the Virginian vernacular house and grounds. Rania’s Catering will provide lunch.

In Canonsburg, architect Jonathan Glance will describe the first phase of restoration planned for the John Roberts House, begun in 1798, and being transformed into an arts center by the Washington County Cultural Trust.

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“Plantation Plenty,” the Isaac Manchester Farm in Avella, Washington County, will be the tour grand finale. PHLF is the first public group invited to tour the 400-acre working farm, placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2011 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places and on Preservation Pennsylvania’s 2010 Pennsylvania At Risk list, due to threats from longwall mining. Margaret Manchester Pagliarulo, an eighth-generation descendant of Isaac Manchester, will welcome our group into the 1815 Georgian farmhouse. 

Call, e-mail or go online to make your reservations. Be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes and clothes. 

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