Speaker Meeting - Sep 11, 2025 7:00 pm - Ben Thomas
Allison-Antrim Museum, 365 South Ridge Avenue, Greencastle, Pennsylvania 17225 will hold its September 11, 2025, speaker meeting in the German Bank Barn beginning at 7 p.m. The facility is wheelchair accessible.
As the speaker for the September speaker meeting, Mayor Ben Thomas will give a first-person presentation – “The Burgesses: From England to Greencastle, circa 1945.”
Who were the political figures that held the office of "Burgess" here in Greencastle, PA? Did the burgess form of government begin in England, Ireland, and Scotland? How did the position of burgess come to North America and to Greencastle? Who were the burgesses here at home and what were their responsibilities. Visitors will be able to discuss Greencastle during this period with Burgess Thomas.
Dr. Thomas H. Gilland, Greencastle Burgess
Early 2025 Fall Exhibition
Allison-Antrim Museum’s Early Fall rotating exhibition is an Eclectic Exhibition of items donated to Allison-Antrim Museum over the past 31 years. The items in this exhibition never “fit” into any other exhibits. Among the items is an 1800’s yarn winder, a manual typewriter, a Civil War rifle, a star and planet “finder,” which is still relevant today, a Masonic sword, a Greencastle Zembo club hat, and much more. In the accompanying photograph is a model of Independence Hall and the billy club used by Greencastle’s first sheriff, Raymond “Ray” Baumgardner (1890 to October 3, 1939).
