Butler County Historical Society volunteer Randy Kruger mows the lawn around Cooper Cabin in Cabot. Historical society volunteers worked to clean up and restore the 1800s-era cabin.

CABOT — The Butler County Historical Society will have a grand reopening of its Cooper Cabin property beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday.

The property, located at 199 Cooper Road, has not been open to the public for years. Society Executive Director Jennifer Ford said volunteers worked all spring and summer repairing, cleaning and staging the cabin for visitors.

Tours of the cabin will be conducted at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. To make reservations for a tour, visit the historical society website or call 724-283-8116. Society members can take the tour for free, while nonmembers will be charged $5.

In addition, the 63rd Pa. Volunteer Infantry Regiment Company C Civil War reenactment group will present an interactive demonstration at 3 p.m. Volunteers will read letters from three Cooper cousins who participated in the Civil War.

“One never made it home, one died 10 days after he returned and one lived until the 20th century,” Ford said.“The house is interesting because the original cabin was built in 1810,” Ford said. “Four generations of Coopers lived there until 1963.”She said the Cooper family has been in Butler County for 200 years. They were farmers, soldiers, cobblers and salesmen.The society has interpreted and styled the cabin not as a typical pioneer cabin, but as a continously occupied home from the 1860s to the mid-20th century.The most famous Cooper, she said, was Nancy Jane Cooper, who lived to be 101. She was born during the Lincoln administration and died in 1963 during the Kennedy administration. She lived in the cabin her entire life.“She didn't get running water and electricity until near the end of her life,” Ford said. “She was also one of the first women in the county to get a divorce. She walked from Cabot to the courthouse to get it.”When Nancy Cooper's grandson, Paul Muder, died, the family bequeathed the cabin to the historical society.The public portion of the activities Saturday will end at 3:30 p.m. Historical society members will have a private meeting at 4 p.m., the first meeting of the membership in nearly two years.

Cooper Cabin in Cabot is styled not as a typical pioneer cabin, but as a continuously occupied home from the 1860s to the mid-1900s.

Cooper Cabin looked like this when it was acquired by the Butler County Historical Society.