Dade City Pioneer Museum & Village

Dade City Pioneer Village/Pioneer Florida Museum

15602 Pioneer Museum Rd, Dade City, FL 33523

Friday, April 26, 2024

9am-1pm

Cost is $9 per person

Children 4 and under are free! 

You may bring a picnic lunch.

Step back in time, this day will consist of self-guided tours for students. Students pass through a series of living history stations that reveal different aspects of the civil war and life during the 1860s. The main Museum is housed in a 50' by 100' steel building, which features a wide rustic front porch. Also on the grounds stands the restored Overstreet House, a one-room school house from Lacoochee, a church from Enterprise, the Trilby depot, and a train engine on 16 beautiful wooded acres. The Museum recalls the basic, simple values of our forebears, asserts the dignity of labor, and emphasizes the value of craftsmanship. On display are tools of the Florida Pioneer Man, showing how he built his house, made his furniture, plowed his fields, harvested his crops, and did his leather-work and blacksmithing.

On display in the Overstreet House and kitchen addition are furnishings which reflect the Florida Pioneer Woman's everyday experiences - churning butter, cooking on a wood-burning stove, spinning, weaving, battling and boiling the family wash and doing her household tasks with simple primitive equipment.

The Pioneer Florida Museum hopes to show that the men and women who were here before us, struggled, made do, and sometimes won and sometimes lost their battles with nature. In essence, they were people much like us.

Guided Tour may include:

The Trilby Train Depot and a 1913 H.K. Porter #3 Steam Engine

Lacoochee One-Room School House and Enterprise Methodist Church built in 1905

1860's John Overstreet House

Vegetable garden, washboard laundry, corn shelling

C.C. Smith General Store

Mabel Jordan Barn - Tractors, Wagons & Buggies

You may bring a lunch and have a picnic at the museum. Tables are available for your use.

You have the choice of visiting our Gift Shop. We have a variety of merchandise starting at $0.25. We prefer to have no more than a dozen students in the gift shop at one time. We ask that you rotate your group so everyone has a turn. 

Parents should encourage children to dress comfortably and appropriately for the weather.

Closed toe shoes such as sneakers are suggested.

The museum sells water and soda in the gift shop.

You may pay online, mail payment to Tampa Bay HEAT, 1011 Knowles Rd. Brandon, 33511 or drop payment by the Homeschool Resource Center.