{"id":131204,"date":"2026-03-06T12:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131204\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T12:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T12:13:14","slug":"historic-sites-in-scranton-weatherly-statewide-free-on-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/131204\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic sites in Scranton, Weatherly, statewide free on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Admission is free Sunday at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton and Eckley Miners\u2019 Village in Weatherly, among other historic sites across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Along with special events in Harrisburg, it is a celebration of the 345th anniversary of the founding of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The original charter granted to William Penn by English King Charles II will be displayed at the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg. It is typically displayed once a year.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There will also be activities at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, also in Harrisburg, in connection with the display \u201cRevolutionary Things: Objects from the Collection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For the complete list of sites with free admission and details, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/pa.gov\/agencies\/phmc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pa.gov\/agencies\/phmc;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pa.gov\/agencies\/phmc<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Admission is free Sunday at the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum in Scranton and Eckley Miners\u2019 Village in Weatherly,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[4651,58430,37,12610,60923,178,180,179,36863],"class_list":{"0":"post-131204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-eckley-miners-village","9":"tag-free-admission","10":"tag-harrisburg","11":"tag-historic-sites","12":"tag-pennsylvania-state-archives","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news","16":"tag-william-penn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}