![]() Natural Landmark, is noted for the profuse variety of formations and unsurpassed natural color. Since discovery in 1878 by a tinsmith and a local photographer, visitors by the millions have made Luray Caverns the most popular cave in Eastern America and an internationally acclaimed destination. So far, since 1954 almost a million dollars has been collected and donated. Once a year, all of the coins are removed and donated to various charities. The Wishing Well is a 6-foot deep pool of water at Luray Caverns where visitors toss coins and even paper money. The American exhibits show the life these colonists and their descendents created in the colonial backcountry, how this life changed over more than a century, and how life in the United States today is shaped by its frontier past. The Old World exhibits show rural life and culture in four homelands of early migrants to the American colonies. ![]() The outdoor exhibits are located in two separate areas: the Old World and America. The Museum engages the public at these exhibits with a combination of interpretive signage and living history demonstrations. To tell the story of these early immigrants and their American descendents, the Museum has moved or reproduced examples of traditional rural buildings from England, Germany, Ireland, West Africa, and America. Regardless of how they arrived, all became Americans, and all contributed to the success of the colonies, and of the United States. Others came as unwilling captives to work on farms and plantations. Many were farmers and rural craftsmen set in motion by changing conditions in their homelands, and drawn to the American colonies by opportunities for a better life. ![]() These first pioneers came to America during the 1600s and 1700s from communities in the hinterlands of England, Germany, Ireland, and West Africa. The Frontier Culture Museum tells the story of the thousands of people who migrated to colonial America, and of the life they created here for themselves and their descendents. Worth checking out! Adults are only $10 and it's just off the highway. You'll see workers in costumes reenacting daily jobs such as spinning thread, gardening, splitting wood, iron forging, tending to animals. We loved going through all the period houses, many of which have been carefully disassembled from their original locations and reassembled on the museum grounds, otherwise have been constructed in accordance with archaeological and historical records.
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