August 16, 2006 – Senator Dominic Pileggi made it possible for about 150 school students from the City of Chester to participate in the Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation’s on-site Education Program.

Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission provided a grant to the Plantation.  A portion of the grant was earmarked to pay for area school students to visit the Plantation who otherwise might not have had the opportunity.

Senator Pileggi suggested field trips to the Plantation for students participating in the City of Chester’s Summer Day Camp Program.  As a result, elementary and middle school students from Chester were able to experience what life on a working farm in southeastern Pennsylvania during the colonial period.

On Wednesday, August 16, Senator Pileggi visited the plantation.  He talked with students visiting the Plantation that day and saw how the Plantation’s Education Program supplements and reinforced colonial history covered in the classroom.

The Colonial Pennsylvania Plantation is a living history site located on the grounds of Ridley Creek State Park in Delaware County.  It hosts about ten thousand students each year from throughout southeastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states.  The Plantation’s on-site Educational Program correlates with the Pennsylvania State Academic Standard.

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