Faces in Clay

810 Main Street Museum

Temporarly closed due to construction and will reopen in the new museum addition Spring 2008.

The Faces in Clay exhibit opened in 1995. With the late County Historian Vernon Leslie's 4,600-plus archaeology collection as its basis, this exhibit interprets the Native American history of the upper Delaware Valley. A number of important features of their lifestyle, hunting and gathering techniques and social customs are highlighted. In addition, Vernon Leslie's life's work is interpreted and, a 17th century dugout canoe can be viewed to the accompaniment of the soothing sounds of the river and forest .