Specials for Teachers during the Winter Recess
45 minute walking tours of the Ithaca downtown DeWitt Historic District, the gorgeous Ithaca Falls, the Cornell campus or the Cornell Plantations - your choice for only $15/person! Please call 607-319-4951 to book your tour.
Or take $15 off/hr on these tours featuring the natural and social history of the region (please see our rates and destinations pages for more information):
· 2 hour tour: We meet at Cornell University and take a tour of prominent Black History sites in Ithaca, including the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for Black college students that was founded in 1906; the childhood home of Alex Haley, the African-American author of Roots; and the St. James AME Zion, built in 1833, believed to be the oldest church structure in Ithaca, one of the first of the AME Zion churches in the country, and also an Underground Railroad station.
· 6 hour tour (Tues-Sat): We drive up the west side of Cayuga Lake to Sheldrake Point, where we have lunch at Simply Red’s Bistro. We travel on to Seneca Falls and follow its Museum Trail, encompassing the feminist and social history of the town where Elizabeth Cady Stanton lived and organized the first Women’s Rights Convention in 1848.
· 6 hour tour (Tues-Sat): We drive up the east side of Cayuga Lake to Auburn, and visit the Harriet Tubman House and its interpretive center, which presents the remarkable life of the “Moses of her People,” who guided many family members and other freedom-seekers north to Canada, and eventually settled in Auburn. On to the Sherwood Inn, on beautiful Skaneateles Lake, for lunch. Returning to Auburn, we visit the William Seward House, home to Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State and Harriet Tubman’s benefactor, which preserves an intact collection of four generations of his family’s furniture, household items, and decorative arts. The house, also an Underground Railroad station, was registered as a National Historic Landmark in 1964 and a "Save America's Treasures" site in 2000.