Changes underway! A National Scenic Byways grant is helping Historic Landmarks make an exciting change at the Huddleston Farmhouse. At the end of August 2009, we suspended museum operations for two years while we create a National Road Interpretive Center at the property. In the interactive audio-visual exhibits, we’ll receive assistance from Ball State University, which completed a National Road documentary in 2009. For more information about the project, contact our staff at the Huddleston House, 765-478-3172.

Pioneers traveling west on the National Road to settle America passed right by the front door of the Huddleston Farmhouse, where many stopped to rest. (Photo: John Domont)

Huddleston Farmhouse and the National Road

 

Weary travelers making the difficult trek westward on the National Road in the early 1800s stopped at the Huddleston family’s farm in Cambridge City for meals, provisions, shelter, and to feed and rest their horses.

Owned and restored by Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, the 1841 Huddleston Farmhouse museum offered visitors a glimpse of the daily lives of John and Susannah Huddleston and their 11 children, as well as the travelers who crowded the porches and yard and rented the farmhouse’s two “travelers’ kitchens” for cooking and sleeping.

Today the museum is under renovation as a National Road Interpretive Center, where expanded exhibits and events will offer modern-day travelers a vivid picture of cross-country travel circa 1840.

Huddleston Farmhouse

838 National Road, Mt. Auburn

Cambridge City, Indiana 47327

765-478-3172

Fax 765-478-3410