At the Free Frank New Philadelphia Historic Frontier Town your students interact with history. Whether you are students and teachers on a class trip or church groups, boys and girl scouts, family reunions or a group of friends, your group will experience what it was like to live in a frontier town. Under the direction of Dr. Juliet Elise Kirkpatrick Walker, the founder of the Free Frank New Philadelphia Historic Preservation Foundation, our staff will assist your group in preparing an interactive educational program tailored to your particular group's curriculum. There will be guided tours by our highly informed staff. There will also be independent tours where your group discovers this historic frontier town at its own pace. The Foundation will also provide tours where you are provided headphones and a cassette player for an audio tour narrated by Dr. Walker as she guides you through the restored New Philadelphia. Your students and group will not only learn about the history of Free Frank, New Philadelphia and frontier life in Illinois but will also experience it. For more information and future group reservations contact groups@newphiladelphiaillinois.org