An enterprising young Aston woman has founded a Traveling Women’s History Museum with items displayed from colonial times to the 1970s, writes Ruth Rovner for the Daily Times.

Rachael McCullough, 18, the women’s museum founder, will be honored today, Aug. 15, by the National History Museum as one of 13 “Young Heroes.”

McCullough  was also honored by the Delaware County Historical Society in 2018 for helping to preserve women’s history.

McCullough, a recent graduate of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, realized in 8^th grade that American history textbooks had almost no mention of women.

She created a project exclusively about women’s history to earn a Girl Scout Gold Award. Her 2017  exhibit was displayed at the Paoli Battlefield.

“It was sort of an outdoor museum and people really enjoyed it.,” McCullough said.

Then the Aston Historical Society asked for a display on colonial women.

“That was the beginning of the museum coming into its own,” she said.

By now, she estimates that her traveling museum contains 200 items, from a colonial tea cup used by women gathering for tea to raise money for Washington’s troops, to a rare 1940 copy of the Girl Scout’ “American Girl” magazine.

Read more about Rachel McCullough’s museum here.

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