We’re interrupting our reader-written blog entry schedule to share some exciting news with you here on the Ice Cream Journal. Today, at around 10:30 a.m., Turkey Hill held a special ground breaking event to officially mark the start of construction of a brand new Lancaster County attraction called the Turkey Hill Experience. (That’s an artist’s rendering of the future Turkey Hill Experience above.)
The Turkey Hill Experience is a project several years in the making and we’re all VERY excited about it. It will be based in Columbia, right here in Lancaster County, and will feature 26,000 square feet of interactive exhibits, a café and retail space and will pay homage to Turkey Hill’s history while highlighting its ice cream and iced tea-making processes. Visitors will also learn about Lancaster County’s heritage and farming traditions in the Mid Atlantic region.
One of the cooler features of the Turkey Hill Experience will be an exhibit that allows visitors to experience what it’s like to be a Turkey Hill Dairy ice cream maker for a day, including the opportunity to create his or her very own ice cream flavor!
If all goes according to plan, the Turkey Hill Experience will open its doors to the public in the spring of 2011.
What’s cool about the Turkey Hill Experience is that it will be housed in an historic silk mill that has been renovated after being empty for more than 25 years. As many of you know, preserving the history and culture of Lancaster County is very important to Turkey Hill, which is what makes this new location so fitting for us.
We’ll post more about the history of the silk mill in an upcoming blog entry and we’ll also post construction updates at least once a month here on the Ice Cream Journal. For now, below is a video of the banner being unveiled at today’s big event. Also, if you live in the central Pennsylvania/Lancaster area, be sure to watch your local news tonight because all four local TV networks (WGAL, WHTM, WPMT and WHP) came out to today’s event to capture the story for the evening news!
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