In August, my family (T & J) and I travelled to Barkerville, BC, to rediscover and savour the flavour of history!
Barkerville is a National Historic Park (http://www.barkerville.ca/newindex/index03.html) named after Billy Barker, a local miner who found the motherlode and sparked a gold rush to the mountainous Cariboo region of British Columbia.
Barkerville is a living museum, with period architecture, artifacts, exhibits, restaurants, inns, shops and actors to help visitors get lost in gold rush life in the 1860s. A few of the buildings are original structures that survived the fire that razed the town after a drunken miner tried to gain a waitress' affections and ran afoul of the inn's stove!
I found the design features of several frontier-era buildings of particular interest to the outdoorsman/survivalist who might endeavor to construct living space with simple hand tools.
We even managed a period-costume photo for the family!
If you have a love for history and love interactive exhibits, I recommend a trip to Barkerville!
1 comment:
Great Blog man!! Keep adding to it, as people are reading it.
Dan.
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