A small area of the museum has been claimed as the Keeping Room or gift shop.

Items are for sale for persons of all ages to remember their visit to the 1852 Herr Family Homestead.

Sunquest Sundial

Sundials – those clever devices thst provide the hour of the day based on the position of the sun – some in many styles. One of the most unusual is the Sunquest sundial and it originated in Landisville. Richard L. Schmoyer, a mechanical engineer who lived at 335 Stony Battery Road in Landisville, sold the first Sunquet sundial in 1959. Sixty years later, Kenneth R. Clark, a sundial enthusiast from Elizabethtown, created an exhibit of the Sunquest and other sundials made by Schmoyer before hs died in 1997. Mr. Clark’s sundial is on display in Emma’s Keeping Room.

Salunga Post Office

The Salunga Post Office was part of Hiestand’s Store on Main Street in Salunga. The post office closed on April 30, 1960. The Eastern Mennonite Missions located at 53 West Brandt Boulevard, Salunga, operated the post office. Upon closing in the late 1980’s they dismantled it and donated it to the Amos Herr House Foundation and Historical Society on May 18, 2000 where it was stored in the corn crib until 2017. The board members checked the dimensions of the post office and basement and a decision was made to move the Salunga Post Office into Emma’s Keeping Room located in the basement of the 1852 Amos Herr House.where it is now on display.