Attention Public History Graduate Students: If you are accepted into one of these positions, the Department of History can make arrangements to have it count as one of the internship requirements. Please see Dr. Perry Blatz.
Volunteer Intern Opportunities
Interpretation/Guide –Fort Necessity/Friendship Hill
Training and research
materials are provided to volunteers to develop a variety of interpretive talks
and programs relating to Fort Necessity’s primary themes of George Washington
at Fort Necessity; French and Indian War; the French, British and American
Indian participants; the Mount Washington Tavern and the National Road.
Friendship Hill is about the statesman/diplomat Albert Gallatin; Western
Expansion and the Whiskey Rebellion.
- Fort Necessity – Living History soldier: presents talks and
musket or artillery firings on a regular basis to adults and children.
These programs are usually conducted April-October.
- Fort Necessity – Mount Washington Tavern: on a regular basis
presents talks or guided tours to adults and children. These programs are usually
conducted April-October.
- Fort Necessity – Staffing the Visitor Center
desk; collecting entrance fees; providing information and assistance to
visitors. Fill in for the Eastern National bookstore clerk. Year round.
- Fort Necessity-Staffing Fur Trade station: on a regular basis in the summer,
present formal or informal talks about the fur trade between the American
Indians, French and British in the mid-18th century in the Ohio River Valley.
- Friendship Hill – Staffing the Visitor Center desk and relating the story of Albert
Gallatin and his connection to southwestern Pennsylvania. Daily April-October and
weekends November-March.
- Friendship Hill – House tours conducted daily April-October and weekends
November-March.
Education Aid – Fort Necessity/Friendship Hill- Work with the Education Specialist on curriculum
development; setting up conferences; tourism promotion; conducting curriculum
based education programs for all grade levels.
Technological Aid-Fort Necessity/Friendship Hill-Work with Park staff and Press Information Officer on
press releases; website development; podcast development; video taping;
photography and other projects as needed.
Library Aid-Fort Necessity/Friendship Hill-Assist the Librarians on a variety of projects
including: preparing new books to be processed into the collection; library
inventory; re-shelving books and magazines; and check for overdue items.
Administrative Aid – Fort Necessity-Work in the Administrative office providing clerical
assistance. This would include typing, filing, copying, computer data entry and
working on projects as assigned.
Resource Management Aid – Fort Necessity/Friendship
Hill-Work with the Resource
Management Specialist on a variety of projects including: monitoring and data
collection for water quality; wildlife and fisheries population and habitat
management; vegetation and pest management; and human impact assessment.
Curatorial Aid- Fort Necessity/Friendship Hill-Assist Curatorial Specialist with preservation of the
museum collections. Projects could include: photographing museum objects;
measuring museum artifacts; recording information on computer; properly storing
collection; inventory; cataloging new additions to the collection; and
collection and exhibit maintenance.
Maintenance Aid-Fort Necessity/Friendship Hill-Assist the permanent office staff in computer data
entry. Other projects could include: assist maintenance in trail
rehabilitation; grounds mowing/grooming; carpentry; plumbing; electrical;
historic preservation and other related tasks.
Training of interns and
volunteers may consist of formal classroom training in early June and/or on the
job informal shadowing of experienced volunteers and rangers. Black powder
training is usually held the first week of June.
Please return applications with references to:
Volunteer Coordinator, Fort
Necessity National
Battlefield, 1 Washington Parkway,
Farmington, PA 15437.
For further information call: 724-329-5512.
