Candlelight will illuminate Historic Schoenbrunn Village during this weekend's Autumn Lantern Tours. (Photo by Andy Donaldson Photography)

NEW PHILADELPHIA - Visitors are getting an opportunity to tour Historic Schoenbrunn Village by the glow of candlelight during this weekend's Autumn Lantern Tours.

The self-guided, nighttime tours are being offered Friday and Saturday from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Visitors will carry lanterns to light their way as they travel through the village along the fall foliage and luminary lined paths.

Costumed storytellers will be stationed among the village's 16 log cabins demonstrating traditional 18th-century activities including candle making, woodworking, sewing, corn grinding, butter churning, apple butter making, and musket firing.

Local musician T.J. Marlatt will be providing the soundtrack for the tour with relaxing flute melodies that will transport visitors back to the 1770s. His music will also be available for purchase inside the Schoenbrunn Gift Shop.

Admission is $7 for adults, $5 for senior citizens, $4 for children ages 6-17, and free for museum members and children 6 and under. Memberships may be purchased during the event and are good for one year.

About Historic Schoenbrunn Village

Historic Schoenbrunn Village was founded in 1772 as a Moravian mission among the Delaware Indians. With founder and missionary David Zeisberger, Ohio's first settlement reached one hundred cabins and three hundred inhabitants. Today, sixteen reconstructed cabins are available to tour. Historic Schoenbrunn Village's last day of its 2019 regular tour season is October 27. Special events include Spring and Autumn Lantern Tours, Children's Day, Frontier Skills, Celebration of Colonial Arts, Colonial Trade Faire, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Christmas in the Village, and a traditional Moravian Sunrise Service for Easter and Lovefeast.

Historic Schoenbrunn Village is operated by the Dennison Railroad Depot Museum and owned by the Ohio History Connection. The Village is located in New Philadelphia at 1984 East High Avenue off of U.S. 250.