School & Group Reservations

Bring history to life at the Dinsmore Farm! 
A visit to our indoor/outdoor museum will allow your students to experience how men, women, and children lived in the 19th and early 20th centuries.  Our museum is a unique site that it encapsulates local, regional, and national history from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century.  We have several programs to choose from depending on the age of your students.  However, you should not feel limited by these programs.  We can alter an existing program to fit with your curriculum or we can visit your classroom.

Our current programs are: Children’s Lives 180 years ago, Antebellum Kentucky Farming, and the Rewards of Research Program. (« Click to learn more)

The website is designed to complement many topics an educator will cover in United States or Kentucky history classes at any level.  Because we have access to the letters, journals, and financial accounts of the family and their relatives, we have first-hand information on some of the following topics:

  • Interactions with Native Americans
  • Economic and social aspects of enslavement
  • Economic and social aspects of life on a sugar plantation
  • The Gold Rush
  • Farming in antebellum Kentucky
  • Nineteenth-century female education
  • Scientific and technological changes
  • Kentucky during the Civil War
  • Northern Kentucky during Reconstruction
  • Ranching in the Far West of the late nineteenth-century
  • Death and mourning in the nineteenth century
  • Women and politics

To schedule your tour or make additional inquiries, please contact the main office at (859) 586-6117, or e-mail ccollopy@dinsmorehomestead.org for available tour dates and times, or use the form below.

"To know where you are going, you must know where you came from."

Tour Groups

The house is as it was when the last generation lived there.  To accommodate groups larger than 10 we need to make the appropriate plans for the docents and volunteers to  tailor the tour and help guarantee a meaningful visit for all.  The tours last roughly an hour and half in the home and immediate area around the house.  Guests can also hike up the hill behind the house to visit the family graveyard.  

Please contact the main office at (859) 586-6117, e-mail ccollopy@dinsmorefarm.org for available tour dates and times or use the form below.