EVENT: Trim-A-Tree Christmas Party

Join us at the Swedish Cabin, part of the 1600’s New Sweden Colony, to welcome Christmas on December 15, from 1-3PM!

Help decorate the tree and enjoy food & drink from the Julbord (Christmas Table). Tomte search for the kids and a craft station. Tour the Cabin and warm yourself by the roaring fires. Shop the Butiken for gifts and Cabin swag.

The Cabin is located at 9 Creek Rd., Drexel Hill PA, just ½ mile from the Creek Rd. stop of the 102 SEPTA trolley. Suggested parking at Gillespie Park, just over the new footbridge in Clifton Heights. Admission is free and open to the public!

COVID-19 Update / Restrictions

The Cabin is open for our regular Sunday schedule this year, however, the site is implementing social distancing policies for its visitors and staff while taking extensive measures to ensure all spaces are safe and sanitary, including the frequent and thorough cleaning of high-touch areas and the addition of hand sanitizing stations inside the structure. Masks are also required for everyone on-site.

In accordance with state and federal guidelines, we are urging the following precautions when visiting the Lower Swedish Cabin:

  • Please wear a face mask; maintain social distance
  • Limit group size to 5 persons at a time
  • Please wait for Greeter to invite you inside
  • Pass the time taking photos, or exploring the grounds and out-buildings
  • Please sign our guest register providing contact information

Please note that tours can be tailored to your time-limits. Please inform the Greeter when you enter.

We are excited to see folks, and we’ll do so with the health and safety of our visitors and staff as our top priority.

Cabin Day!

Please join us on Saturday, June 22, 2019 for the cabin’s Living History Celebration: 30 Years of the Lower Swedish Cabin’s Restoration (1989 – 2019). The event will be 1PM – 4PM, with a rain date of Sunday, June 23 (the next day). There is no admission fee.

We will have a Native American and Swedes demonstration, games, crafts and refreshments. Parking is scarce, so please consider using the SEPTA Creek Road Station and walking up the road a little to get to the cabin. There is also some parking under the bridge at that station.

ECHO Tour of Mills on Cobbs and Darby Creeks

Join us for a guided bus tour along Cobbs and Darby Creeks through Haverford, Upper Darby, Clifton Heights, Springfield, Marple, Radnor and Newtown Townships. Led by historian Kelly Brennan, this tour will visit historic mill sites along these creeks, and see a few mills that were adaptively reused and existing mill houses including tours of Nitre Hall/Lawrence Cabin in Haverford and Paper Mill House in Newtown. You’re welcome to bring a bagged lunch.

When: Saturday, June 8, 9am- 1pm

Where: Tour starts and ends at Nitre Hall, 1682 Karakung Drive, Havertown, PA 19083. Parking is available in the lower parking lot.

Cost: $10 per person (cash or check to Haverford Township Historical Society), or $11.10 via PayPal.

How to Register: http://haverfordhistoricalsociety.org/echo-mills-tour

Spaces are limited

Friends of the Swedish Cabin Welcome You!

After some years of building up our organization, and through generous donations and volunteer work by members and friends of our non-profit group (FSC), we are excited to present this new web site in order to promote enthusiasm and share knowledge of this wonderful historic landmark.

There is still lots of work to do! We will periodically post new information here, along with with information on how you can get involved in supporting the organization.

Friends of the Swedish Cabin is a non-profit group, created to conduct educational programs with an emphasis on history and natural science subjects, and shall have authority to engage in all activities which are consistent with this purpose, including the ownership of land and property with special concern for the restoration and preservation of this historic site and structure.