Historic Fair Hill

Reading Promise Festival
2021-10-16 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Historic Fair Hill is excited to be participating in this year’s Reading Promise Week.

We will be hosting a Reading Promise Festival on Saturday, October 16th from 12pm-4pm at our historic site. There will be music, games, and lots of giveaways, all to celebrate reading and families in Fairhill. We hope that you will be able to join us!

Yoga for All + Family Fun Day + Gardening!
2021-10-23 12:00 - 15:00
Join us at 12 noon for a yoga session, stay afterwards for family fun day activities and gardening!

All of these activities are all ages and skill level – beginners welcome and encouraged!

Bring your own mat or towel if you can.

Harvest Festival
2021-10-30 11:00 - 15:00
Celebrate the fall with us! Pumpkin painting, games, and more!

Love Your Park Day - Fairhill Square
2021-11-13 10:00 - 12:00 | Fairhill Square Park, N 4th St & W Huntingdon, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19133
Join neighbors as we help rake and bag leaves, pick up trash, and empty park trash cans. Register here and visit loveyourpark.org for more info.

Second Saturday Tours
2021-11-13 12:00 - 14:00
Join us on the Second Saturday of each month for history and mural tours at 12pm and 1pm. Email info@historicfairhill.com to RSVP.

Tree Tenders Planting Day
2021-11-20 09:00 - 13:00
Help us plant and steward the tree canopy in Fairhill.

Volunteer day
2021-12-04 12:00 - 15:00
Volunteers needed! Join us to paint the benches around the historic park. Rake leaves with friends – no tools necessary. Dress warmly!

Fairhill Fun Run
2021-12-11 10:00 - 13:00
Runners from Potter Thomas and Julia deBurgogos running clubs. Volunteers needed to cheer on the runners and help afterward with campfire and lunch

Winter Nature Walk
2021-12-11 13:00 - 15:00 | Historic Fair Hill, 2901 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19133, United States
Join us to experience HFH Park in Winter – We’ll walk the grounds, observe the peaceful nature around us, and share a book & cocoa around the campfire.

Volunteer! Help String 10,000 Lights
2021-12-18 12:00 - 15:00
Calling all Volunteers! We need help stringing 10,000 Holiday Lights that will be powered by motorcycle batteries (cool, huh?!). Dress warmly and we’ll see you there!

HFH Holiday Party
2021-12-18 15:30 - 17:00 | Historic Fair Hill, 2901 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19133, United States
Calling all staff, board, volunteers, neighbors, partners!

Join us at the grounds for our annual holiday party! 2901 Germantown Ave.

Visit with outgoing ED Jean and incoming ED Kerry.Enjoy the Holiday lights and camp fire with s’mores.

Holiday Lights at Fairhill park
2021-12-19 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-20 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-21 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-22 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-23 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-24 17:00 - 20:00
Holiday lights to brighten Fairhill. Stroll through the 5 acres with lights, warm by the fire with good company.

Holiday Lights at Fairhill park
2021-12-25 17:00 - 20:00
Last chance for this year!

Holiday lights to brighten Fairhill. Stroll through the 5 acres with lights, warm by the fire with good company.

MLK Day of Service
2022-01-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Historic Fair Hill, 2901 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19133, United States
MLK Day of Service is a way to celebrate the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King.
10a-12p Burial Ground clean up
12:30 Join us for a reading of Dr. King’s sermons & letters, and singing freedom songs, and to roast marshmallows by the campfire.
We hope you’ll consider spending this holiday with us.

Black History Mural Tour
2022-02-12 12:00 - 15:00 | Historic Fair Hill, 2901 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19133, United States
Historic Fair Hill will be hosting a Mural Tour for the Second Saturday in February (2/12/22). History Educator, Carolyn Singleton, will share the stories and struggles depicted in the six wall murals around the burial ground as we reflect on and take action around Black History Month.

Learn about major events, connections to today, and the people that called Fairhill/Philadelphia home. Join us as we learn about their contributions in the fight for an equitable future.

Free tours will be held at 12pm, 1pm, and 2pm at 2901 Germantown Ave. Email info@historicfairhill.com for more info.

Women's History Mural Tour
2022-03-19 12:00 - 15:00 | Historic Fair Hill, 2901 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19133, United States
Our Women’s History Month Tour includes a mural tour and stops at the graves of Lucretia Mott and Mary Ann M’Clintock, two of the five organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention on the Rights of Women in 1848.

Tours are given at 12pm, 1pm, & 2pm. Please select tickets at the time in which you’d like to attend.

FREE EVENT.

Get Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-history-mural-tour-tickets-274414680697

Philly Spring Clean Up
2022-04-02 10:00 - 12:00
Philly Spring Cleanup is Philadelphia’s largest city-wide, single-day clean-up event. Since its 2008 launch, a total of 200,000 volunteers have removed more than 11.4 million pounds of trash and 950,000 pounds of tires from city streets at nearly 6,750 project sites.

We will meet at the Fair Hill Burial Ground (2901 Germantown Ave) at the W Indiana Ave gates and then work on the surrounding blocks. Sign up by visiting https://phillyspringcleanup.com/7/volunteerProject/2680 or emailing us to let us know you’re coming.

Family Fun Day
2022-04-02 12:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-09 12:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-16 12:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-23 12:00 - 15:00
Join us each Saturday this spring for family friendly games, activities, stories, and more!

Gardening Days
2022-04-09 10:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-16 10:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-23 10:00 - 15:00
Come out and garden with us on Saturdays! All are welcome.

Spring Tree Walk
2022-04-09 12:00 - 13:00
Come out to Historic Fair Hill to meet our trees as they wake up from their Winter rest. We’ll use our senses to look for buds on trees, touch and compare different kinds of tree bark and tree seeds, smell flowers, and listen to the songs of the resident birds and squirrels.

2901 Germantown Avenue – enter through the gates on Indiana Avenue.
