Fulton House
The Fulton Stone House was the home of Samuel Fulton who emigrated from County Donegal in Ireland in the early 1700s to settle in the township of Donegal Springs in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. At that time Donegal Springs was a remote frontier outpost inhabited mainly by settlers from west Ul...

Log Cabin
In April 1819 the Mellons purchased their first farm ‘in a remote and unfrequented part of the country”. The only building on the property was a small log cabin in which the family lived until such times as they had cleared their mortgage. Building a good log cabin took weeks of ...

Pennsylvania House
The Pennsylvania Farmhouse is an exact replica of the six-room dwelling lived in by Thomas Mellon and his family.The original house still stands to this day in the town of Export, Pennsylvania.This log farmhouse is typical of those constructed by permanent settlers in the New World.The technique ...

Cunningham Springhouse
Abraham and Nancy (née Glasgow) Cunningham emigrated from Ireland and in 1810 arrived near Bakerstown in West Deer Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where they purchased 200 acres of land.  Like many other Irish settlers, they were attracted to the area by its low taxes and large tra...

Western Pennsylvania Hupp/Cox House
The Western Pennsylvania Log House has a well-documented history that reflects the experiences of a pioneer family in the early American frontier (get closer by clicking the images).Between 1766 and 1769, Everhart Hupp settled in the north side of Tenmile Creek, not far from the Monongahela River...

West Virginia McCallister House
Richard McCallister, a farmer, built this house in 1827 in Cabell County, West Virginia, to house his growing family.Richard was born about 1792 in Bath County, Virginia. His grandfather James was born between 1725 and 1730 in Pennsylvania or Ulster. ‘McCallister’ is a distinctly Ulst...

McGavock house (in storage)
Date for re-erection in the Ulster American Folk Park to be scheduledJames McGavock was born in 1728 near Glenarm in County Antrim. In the mid-1750s, he left a farm of about 30 acres and emigrated to America. In 1757 he acquired land valued at £50 in Augusta County, Virginia.&nb...