Indian Steps Museum in Airville, York County
History of the Museum
John E. "Judge" Vandersloot was not a Judge as his nickname would imply but was rather a well-respected attorney from York, Pennsylvania.Near the end of a lifetime spent collecting meeting with Native Americans and studying their culture and history Judge Vandersloot built what is now the Indian Steps Museum in Airville York County.
The museum is operated and maintained by the Conservation Society of York.
In his lifetime Judge Vandersloot collected cataloged and preserved tens of thousands of Native American artifacts in his own collections.
And he was also the beneficiary and repository for numerous other collections over the years. Other collectors contributed to the Vandersloot collections and left their own collections to Judge Vandersloot's care and reverence.
To house his collections Vandersloot built the museum we see today.
The exterior of the museum building includes thousands of Indian arrowheads and other artifacts set into the smooth concrete walls.
Construction was completed on the Museum in 1912. Twenty-four years later Judge Vandersloot died in 1936. The Conservation Society of York leased the museum three years later in 1939.
The Conservation Society later took full control of the Indian Steps Museum in 1956.
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