Ulster American Folk Park

How long do you have? Visitor Information Membership ULSTER AMERICAN FOLK PARK Not to be missed Stop and Shop What’s On Guide For those who love the museum Immerse yourself in the story of Irish emigration Old World Whether you’re looking for a gift Don’t forget to pick up a copy of our as much as we do, become a at the museum that brings it to life. Experience Mellon Homestead (9) or a souvenir of your visit, our shop What’s On guide while you are here. member to support our work and the emigrant adventure as you journey from the Campbell House (12) carries a wide range of unique It’s jam-packed with information you’ll enjoy lots of great benefits. thatched cottages of Ulster, on board a full scale Hughes House (15) products to suit all ages. There’s on all the fantastic events and Members enjoy unlimited free everything from local arts and exhibitions you can enjoy at National entry at the Ulster Folk & Transport emigrant sailing ship, to the log cabins of a new Ulster Street (18–25) crafts, children’s toys and games Museums Northern Ireland. Available Museum and Ulster American Folk homeland on the American Frontier. Meet an Ship and Dockside Gallery (26) to a variety of interesting books. at any of our visitor information Park, a discount of 10% in all our American Street (27–31) points, it’s just what you need gift shops and catering outlets, and array of costumed characters on your way with Time for Tea for planning more great days out! regular updates throughout the year. traditional crafts to show, tales to tell and food New World With all the walking around, you’ll to share. Samuel Fulton Stone House (32) surely work up an appetite. Our café You will also receive advance notice West Pennsylvania Log House (41) offers a range of wholesome meals of upcoming events and exhibitions and is the perfect spot for a cuppa. for all National Museums Northern MAP Ireland sites.

This map will help you find your way around the museum What to see Please take care crossing 19. J McMaster Saddler New World 36. Smokehouse Tickets and Shop and ensure that you have an enjoyable visit. The museum 37. Springhouse Information Desk the public road. 20. J Reilly Publican/Grocer M u s e u m 27. E. Pattison Tinsmith C a f é 1.  Matthew T Mellon Toilet Facilities Café is divided into four sections: Indoor Galleries, Old World, 21. J Devlin Pawnbroker 38. Pennsylvania Log Visitor Centre 9. Mellon Homestead 28. General Store M u s e u m Picnic area Ship and Dockside and New World. Simply follow (chickens and ducks) 22. D Reynolds Ropemaker 29. Photographic Studio Farmhouse Adapted Toilets R e s t a u r a n t Galleries 39. The Herb Garden the numbered sequence on the map to find your way. 10. Viewpoint 23. J Hill Chemist 30. Mellon Bank Parent & Visitor Photographs Baby Room The directional signs in the grounds will also help. 2. Temporary Exhibition Gallery 11. Mellon Farm Landscape – NEW 24. W Murray Drapers 31. Wheelwrights 40. Cunningham Springhouse 41. Western Pennsylvania Parking Learning Centre You can also ask our staff in the Visitor Centre for 3. Emigrants Exhibition 12. Campbell House and Hardware 32. Samuel Fulton 25. Log House Disabled Parking Residential Centre advice on a route to suit your needs. Old World 13. Tullyallen Mass House W G O’Doherty Stone House Licensed Grocer 42. West Virginia McCallister 4. 14. Turf Bank 33. The Log Cabin  Single Room Cabin 26. Ship and Dockside Gallery House – NEW 5.  Forge 15. Hughes House 34. The Pennsylvania Log Barn 16. Schoolhouse 35. Corn Crib 43. The Centre for Migration 6.  Weavers Cottage Studies / Library 7.  Meeting House 17. Mountjoy Post Office 8.  Vestry 18. RJ Blair Printer

New World Development 11 The next exhibit of the New World development to open will be the Rogan House from near Nashville in Tennessee. The opening of the Rogan House 12 10 begins a programme of development that will see an American village, 09 a covered bridge and five further farmsteads added to the museum over 14 the next number of years. 13 32

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From Visitor Centre (1) to Campbell House (12) – 5 minutes 01 From Mellon Homestead (9) to West Pennsylvania Log House (41) – 15 minutes 43 From Ship and Dockside Gallery (26) to West Virginia McCallister House (42) – 10 minutes Tell me more 1. Matthew T Mellon handloom which would have 10. Viewpoint 15. Hughes House Printers both from Strabane 32. Samuel Fulton 38. Pennsylvania a farmer and according to Visitor Centre been used to weave tweed or and Reilly’s Spirit Grocers from Stone House Log Farmhouse the 1860 US Census, he could linen. It was here that the man of Before leaving the Mellon Moved from Dernaved townland Newtownbutler. You can also read and write, owned land and Your visit begins and ends at the house would spend the long Homestead, visit the viewpoint in County Monaghan, this is the explore a Saddler’s shop from This original stone building This two storey house is a property to the value of $1000 our Visitor Centre. With a ticket evenings weaving, while his wife and enjoy the beautiful scenery boyhood home of John Joseph Cavan and a Ropeworks from came from Lancaster County, replica of the one which Thomas as well as personal belongings desk, gift shop, café, toilets and spun the flax fibres into yarn and of the River Strule and the Hughes. John emigrated to Dungannon as you stroll along Pennsylvania. It was the home Mellon and his family lived in to the value of $200. The house other visitor facilities, you’ll find his children carded and combed Sperrin Mountains. America in 1817 where he the street. of Samuel Fulton who emigrated four years after their arrival in and land was purchased by the all the help you need here. If you the flax in preparation for the eventually became the first from Donegal and settled in Pennsylvania. With six rooms, county in the 1850s and turned need any assistance while in the spinning wheel. 11. Mellon Farm Catholic Archbishop of New York. Lancaster County in 1724. its greater size and appearance into Cabell County Poor Farm. outdoor museum, please ask Landscape NEW He laid the cornerstone of Samuel built this one and half indicated increasing success a costumed guide. 7. Meeting House the famous Saint Patrick’s storey house using field stones and prosperity. The original 43. The Centre for Take a walk around the early Cathedral located on Fifth he found on his land, a method still stands to this day in the When you are ready to begin This Meeting House is a 1800s Mellon farm landscape. Avenue in Manhattan. Typical of building which he had been town of Export, Pennsylvania. Migration Studies / Library your tour, make your way to the replica of the Presbyterian The full walk should take of houses in south Ulster at the familiar with from his life If what you see in the outdoor Exhibition Gallery through the Church from Mountjoy located approximately 20 minutes time, a striking feature of this in Ireland. He built the house 39. The Herb Garden museum makes you want to entrance marked Gallery and at a crossroads only a few miles to complete. house is the ‘jamb’ wall, a single over a spring so he had a place find out more about any aspect Outdoor Museum. from the museum. Dating from brick wall between the front door to keep milk and other perishable The Herb Garden provided fresh of Irish migration, including the late 1700s, it is where 12. Campbell House and the hearth that prevented foods fresh. vegetables and herbs as well the migration story of your own 2. Temporary Thomas Mellon worshipped draughts while also as plants that could be used for ancestors, then a visit to the This is the original, ancestral 26. Ship and Exhibition Gallery as a boy. To hear more about offering privacy. medicinal purposes in a time Centre for Migration Studies is home of the Campbell family of Dockside Gallery this building, press the button before modern health care. a must. The centre supports the Explore our programme of changing Aghalane in Plumbridge, County on the pulpit from where the Lying in the dock, waiting to museum by providing reference exhibitions and displays. Created Tyrone. As you can see from the minister would have delivered take you to your new homeland 40. Cunningham Springhouse resources for studying the to complement the museum’s writing above the door, it was built many a lengthy sermon. on the American Frontier is a history of both the United States permanent collection, they cover in 1786 by Hugh Campbell who Part of the original Cunningham replica of an early 1800s emigrant and Ulster in the 18th and 19th a broad range of subjects that owned and farmed a considerable farmstead from Allegheny 8. Vestry sailing ship. It has been modelled centuries. Everyone welcome. tell the story of emigration amount of land. He had twelve on the Brig Union which carried County, Pennsylvania, the cool in interesting ways. The vestry is where the children and his two youngest members of the Mellon family spring water that ran through emigrated to America. Hugh left this house helped keep milk minister carried out his study. to Baltimore in 1816. Always 3. Emigrants Exhibition This replica sits in the corner of for New York in 1818 but settled a hive of activity, the dockside 33. The Log Cabin and other perishable in Philadelphia where he became foods fresh. the square yard just like the one buildings are original. The This small, two room log cabin Emigrants is a major exhibition a successful merchant. Robert 16. Schoolhouse that partnered the Meeting House Merchant’s office is from Great is the type of house built and that explains the story of over emigrated in 1822 where he at Mountjoy. If you walk inside This one-room National School George’s Street in Belfast while a occupied by early emigrants 41. Western Pennsylvania 200 years of emigration between you can imagine the minister became a fur trader in the Rocky Ireland and America. was moved from the nearby 1700s house from Bridge Street such as the young Thomas Log House sitting at his desk preparing his Mountains and later a successful in Derry represents the type of townland of Castletown. The Mellon and his family when This house was originally built sermon for the Sunday service. merchant in St. Louis, Missouri. boarding house available before building is dated 1845 although they first arrived in America. on the Cox family farm, Greene 4. Single Room Cabin setting sail for the east coast records reveal that there was a They would spend years living County, Pennsylvania by Uriah of North America. Collect your Moved stone by stone from school on the original site from in dwellings similar to this until Hupp in the 1800s. One of his Please take care crossing ticket and board the ship to Altaghoney on the slopes of the the 1790s. Country children they had the time and money descendants, Benjamin Franklin the public road. experience the conditions of Sperrin Mountains, the Devine often walked barefoot to school to build a more spacious and Hupp married Clara D. Kelley, a six to twelve week crossing. family’s single room cabin is an where they learned to read, permanent home. whose family had emigrated Then exit between decks into excellent example of the type of write and do simple arithmetic. from Armagh in 1719. The porch 9. Mellon Homestead the Arrivals Area where home that many of the landless When Castletown School opened 34. The Pennsylvania at the front is a common feature a new world awaits. poor lived in before the Great Standing on its original site, it had an average daily attendance Log Barn of American log houses from Famine in 1845. Dating from it was in this small farmhouse of 70 pupils. the middle of the 1800s and the late 1700s, the windows and that Thomas Mellon was born in This multi-purpose outbuilding this three room log house door were only added in 1845. 1813. In 1818, at the age of five, 13. Tullyallen Mass House 17. Mountjoy Post Office on the frontier farm was used is a well-preserved example Before this time, animal skins he emigrated with his parents to for housing animals and storing of the style. or bushes would have been Pennsylvania. Built by Thomas’s From Tullyallen near Dungannon This building was moved from animal feed and crops. Its large used to block entrances. father, Andrew Mellon, the in County Tyrone this was the nearby Mountjoy village complete central area allowed wagons cottage and its outbuildings are place of worship for the Catholic with Victorian letterbox. It will to be moved easily. 5. Forge typical of the farmsteads which parishioners of Killeeshill Parish. give you a glimpse into life in Built in 1768 and extended in a rural Post Office from the 35. Corn Crib Step inside this typical so many Irish people left behind as they looked for a new life in 1830 as Catholics were allowed late 1800s. In 1862, the house blacksmith’s forge from the to practise their faith, it has been was listed under the Post This building would have served 1800s which was a vital part of America. For young Thomas it as a small store for housing Visit us online did indeed prove to be a ‘Land of reconstructed in its original Towns in Ireland as Mountjoy 27-31. The American Street the countryside in years gone by. form with plain sash windows, Post Office, 99 miles from Indian corn or maize. Promise’. He became a lawyer This American street scene is www.nmni.com Our own blacksmith will be keen whitewashed walls and Dublin. It functioned in the and a judge and later in his life, typical of those which would to talk to you and demonstrate his thatched roof. converted parlour of a private Don’t forget to visit the museum he set up the Mellon Bank which have greeted many thousands 36. Smokehouse craft. The blacksmith or farrier house occupied at that time by 42. West Virginia website where you can find is still a very important financial of emigrants in ports such as shod and cared for horses postmaster Nathaniel Maginnis This building would have been McCallister House NEW out more about our events, institution in the United States 14. Turf Bank Baltimore, New York or Boston. used for smoking meat and fish. although he would also produce and family. exhibitions, opening times valuable tools for the farm and of America. The turf bank shows a bog bank It features a General Store with This house was built in 1827 by an original interior from North and collection highlights. home like ploughs and griddles. built up over thousands of years 18-25. Ulster Street 37. Springhouse Richard McCallister in the hills Under the hearth is a water trough due to waterlogged conditions. Virginia, Tinsmith’s exhibition, along Tyler Creek near the town The cool spring water that ran where he cooled his tools. It is The turf is cut in the various The Ulster Street is the type of Wheelwright’s workshop and a of Salt Rock, Cabell County, Contact Details through this house helped keep said that the water in the trough stages of drying before being street that thousands of emigrants replica of the first Mellon Bank. West Virginia. Richard was born Ulster American Folk Park milk and other perishable is a cure for warts! used in a fire. passed down before boarding in Bath County, Virginia. His 2 Mellon Road foods fresh. ships to America. It is the finest grandfather James is believed Castletown, Omagh 6. Weaver’s Cottage collection of original, traditional to have emigrated from Ulster in County Tyrone the 1720s. Richard married his 19th century Ulster shop fronts BT78 5QU Many homes were more than just in the world. Brought in from first wife Sarah in 1814 and they places to live but also places to local towns and villages, the shops built this house for their growing work. This weaver’s cottage is a on the Ulster Street include family to live in. Richard was Telephone: 0845 608 0000 good example to explore. As you Hill’s Chemist and Blair’s will see, a room is laid aside for a Tourism Ireland Tourism