Hunter’s Home Girl Scout Patch Program For Brownies For Juniors For Cadettes/Seniors/Ambassadors

About the Program The Hunter’s Home is the only remaining pre-Civil War plantation in Oklahoma. Visit this rare jewel and learn about life in the nineteenth century through guided tours and hands-on activities. When you complete all the required activities, earn a Hunter’s Home patch. Visit Hunter’s Home, including the 1845 mansion and historic springhouse, smokehouse, and general store. Museum admission, hands-on activities, and patch are included in the special Girl Scout price of $5 per girl. (For groups of five or more.)

Requirements for Brownie Girl Scouts Complete four activities.   Take a tour of the Hunter's Home. After the tour, draw a picture of your favorite piece of furniture from the house. Learn a dance or game from the nineteenth century and demonstrate to with friends or family. (Hint: Have an adult download the teacher’s guide at www.okhistory.org/huntershome to find some ideas, or ask museum staff to arrange an activity.) Visit George Murrell’s general mercantile store. What were the most popular items in the store? Do people still buy them today? Take a hike on the Hunter's Home Nature Trail. Pick up any trash you see to help keep the site in good condition for others to enjoy. Find out the purposes of the smokehouse and springhouse. A plantation is a large farm. Both people and animals worked on the farm. Visit the chicken coops and gardens to learn about farming and what crops were harvested.

Requirements for Junior Girl Scouts Complete six activities, including the one starred activity.   * Take a tour of the Hunter's Home. Name at least three ways in which people’s daily lives in the 1800s were different than your daily life. Learn about clothing that women wore in the 1800s. Using original photos as an inspiration, design a dress that you would have liked to wear during that era. Pressed flowers were a popular keepsake for girls in the nineteenth century. Learn how to press and dry your own flowers. Write a letter to a friend and include a pressed flower for her, or make a scrapbook of different flowers you find when traveling. Learn about the different activities that female slaves engaged in at the Hunter's Home. Try your hand at one of their daily chores, like laundry, making yarn or felt, weaving, preparing food, gardening, etc. (You can do these on your own or plan a special activity session with the Hunter's Home staff. Just make sure the materials and techniques you use were available in the nineteenth century.)

Requirements for Junior Girl Scouts Visit the chicken coops on the grounds of the Hunter's Home. What role did animals play on the plantation? What housing and supplies are needed to take care of them?   Find a way to help preserve a local historic site for future generations to enjoy. You could pick up trash, clean out flower beds, paint fences, or help with a public event. Make sure to get permission from the staff first. At home or on a camping trip, prepare a nineteenth-century recipe using a Dutch oven or another traditional method of cooking. (Hint: With an adult’s help, download the teacher’s guide at www.okhistory.org/huntershome to find some sample recipes.) Share your creation with friends or family. Learn a dance or game from the nineteenth century and demonstrate it to friends or family. (Hint: With an adult’s help, download the teacher’s guide at www.okhistory.org/huntershome to find some examples, or arrange a lesson with museum staff.)

Requirements for Cadette/Senior/Ambassador Girl Scouts Complete seven of the ten activities, including the one starred activity. * take a tour of the Hunter's Home. Find out about the Cherokee Trail of Tears and how the Murrell/Ross families came to be located in northeast Oklahoma. How did the American civil war affect the Cherokee nation? Learn to handle and care for fragile artifacts. What special treatment is needed to preserve old furniture, photographs, or other items? What is the best way to clean them? How should they be stored? Find out about three different career opportunities in the history or museum fields (historical interpreter, archaeologist, curator, program director, etc.). Ask someone in the field about their job, including required education, qualifications, and training.

Requirements for Cadette/Senior/Ambassador Girl Scouts With permission from employees, plan a service project at an important historic site. Look for a need, come up with a solution, and volunteer your time to carry out the project. You could do yard work or gardening, help at a special event, or clean up a historic building. George Murrell’s general mercantile store was an important part of the park hill community. What forms of currency or payment were used to buy goods in the store? What items were pre-manufactured, and which items had to be made by hand? Identify at least three plants or trees found on the grounds of the Hunter's Home that were used for practical purposes other than food (such as medicines, dyes, etc.) in the 1800s. How did people cook and store food before refrigeration? Visit the Hunter's Home kitchen, smokehouse, and springhouse to learn about how food was prepared in the nineteenth century.

Requirements for Cadette/Senior/Ambassador Girl Scouts Try your hand at historic techniques for producing clothing. Hunter's Home staff can teach you how to spin yarn, make felt, or weave yarn into cloth. With an adult’s permission, You can also search for fiber arts techniques on Youtube.com. Go for a hike on the Hunter's Home Nature Trails. Write a poem or short story, or create a work of art or song that expresses your feelings about the area and its history. Share your project with friends. Create a promotional piece (brochure, poster, PowerPoint presentation, etc.) that markets the value of history to your local community. Share your project through a display at a public venue, such as your school or local library.

Contact Us For more information on Hunter’s Home or to schedule a tour, please contact: Jennifer Frazee (918) 456-2751 or email jfrazee@okhistory.org Hunter’s Home 19479 East Murrell Home Road Park Hill, OK 74451 okhistory.org/huntershome Find us on Facebook and Twitter!