Back to School Festival – Arts & Music Family Event
Celebrate 104 years of the Davie School Built 1918
Old Davie School Historical Museum presents
BACK TO SCHOOL FESTIVAL
Arts & Music Family Event
Saturday, September 10th 10am – 5pm
FREE ADMISSION
LIVE MUSIC FEATURING SHADOW CREEK
Bring Chairs. No coolers.
Children’s Activities
Food Trucks
Vendors
Museum Tours
Flea Market
The Big Yellow Building on Griffin Road!
Organizer
The Davie School Foundation was established in 1984 to protect and restore the Davie School to the integrity of its earlier appearance. The Foundation in conjunction with the Town of Davie, the Broward County School Board, the Soroptimist International of Davie, the Davie Historical Society and the community at large has worked tirelessly to preserve this important piece of Broward County’s history.
Venue
The ‘splendid building’ has served as a school, town hall, dance hall, Broward County School Board office space, shelter during floods and hurricanes, and today is preserved as the Old Davie School Historical Museum.
After restoration, the Old Davie School regained the integrity of its early years. The lower-level of the museum houses a restored 1920s classroom, and exhibits illustrating both the history of the pioneers’ westward movement into the Everglades and the town that became Davie. The campus also includes a reconstructed 1909 Pioneer Home, that reveals the realities of life on the Everglades frontier at the turn of the century, as well as the historic Viele and Walsh-Osterhoudt homes, both built in 1912 and relocated to the Old Davie School campus. A reconstructed Citrus Packing House, currently under construction, will demonstrate the stages of citrus growing, picking, packing and shipping that made Davie famous.
Today, the Old Davie School Historical Museum invites visitors to experience South Florida’s agricultural past, and its economically diverse region. With artifacts, photographs, articles and maps, a visit to the museum takes visitors back in time to experience the vibrant history that shaped this community.