Kick off Women's History Month at the Betsy Ross House, where guests can meet women from history and hear about their lives and times! Once Upon A Nation Storytellers will share short, interactive tales highlighting women through history.

Storytelling Sundays

Sundays in March | 11am – 3pm | FREE

Award-winning Once Upon A Nation Storytellers shed light on women’s contributions to our nation’s history that our history books missed.

Meet the Women of the Betsy Ross House

March 2 | 12 – 3pm | $12

Meet Betsy Ross in two different stages of her life, along with her wealthy landlord,.

Find Hannah Lithgow,  who owned the House when Betsy Ross rented rooms there, in the parlor.  Upstairs, meet a young Betsy Ross secretly stitching the first flag in her bedchamber, away from the prying eyes of Loyalists.  Finally, in the basement, find Betsy Ashburn, the remarried upholsterer, now participating in even more rebellious activity – making musket cartridges for the Continental Army.

Traditional self-guided tours will be available from 10am to 12pm and again from 3-5pm.

Meet the Women of the 18th Century

March 9 | 11am – 3pm | FREE

Meet chocolate maker Mary Craythorne and cake baker Margaret Woodby.

A Crafternoon with Wilson & Claypoole

March 16 | 11am – 4pm | $20

Participate in a sewing project guided by Betsy Ross Claypoole and second-generation upholsterer, her daughter Clarissa Claypoole. Bring multiple generations of your own to enjoy this special event!

Learn to sew your own DIY lavender sachets to take home before continuing to a self-guided tour of the Betsy Ross House. Next, stop in Betsy’s shop to try some stitches on an authentic 18th-century upholstery project with Betsy herself!

Meet the Women of the 18th Century

March 23 | 11am – 3pm | FREE

Meet Julia Stockton Rush, the young, opinionated wife of the renowned Dr. Benjamin Rush, who wove together the duties of motherhood and doctor’s wife with politics AND Elizabeth Drinker, a prominent Quaker in Colonial Philadelphia with no lack of opinions on everything from politics to vaccines.