Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing, Inc.

Make History Happen!

Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing invites you to make it possible for students to use new lab equipment as part of our award-winning history/archaeology Building Blocks of History field trip. Your gift can cover the cost of lab supplies: screens, brushes, storage bags, trays, measuring tools, and a computer. The supplies will be used to introduce students to the important work archaeologists do after they are finished digging a site: washing, sorting, cataloguing, and analyzing their discoveries.

Riverside is a 300-acre historic farm site on the mighty Ohio in southwest Louisville. Its mission is to promote, preserve, restore, and interpret historic farm life on the Ohio River. Since the property opened to the public in 1993, Riverside has welcomed hundreds of thousands of school children for its Building Blocks program.

This full-day immersive experience introduces students to the history of the property--and to the process of doing history. Students tour the property, dig alongside professional archaeologists, and engage in other hands-on activities. We want students to become interested in the past--and to ask questions about it. We introduce them to the types of evidence historians and archaeologists use to learn about the past. And, we encourage them to use their analytical and critical thinking skills as "history detectives."

Your investment will ensure students can participate in this exciting facet of the program, deepening their understanding of how we learn about the past through this hands-on history lab experience!