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Philipsburg Manor, a restored 18th-century trading and milling complex, is a living history museum that offers insight both through its objects and demonstrations. It focuses on the lives of enslaved Africans.

The complex, consisting of a mill, farm, and large stone manor house located on the banks of the Pocantico River, belonged in the 17th and 18th centuries to the Philipse family, whose landholdings encompassed 52,000 acres. It was the hub of the family's business empire, which included the slave trade. Thanks to an inventory compiled in 1750, it is known that 23 Africans were the chief labor force at Philipsburg Manor, making the Philipses one of the largest slaveholders in the northern colonies.

The manor, which is owned and operated by Historic Hudson Valley, functions much as it did 300 years ago, now worked by guides in period dress. A reconstructed water-powered gristmill grinds grain, while heirloom varieties of plants and animals are tended around an 18th-century Dutch barn moved to the site and in a re-created slave garden. Tours of the manor house, with its collection of period furnishings and touchable reproductions, highlight the juxtaposition between the lifestyles of the Philipses and the slave community. Demonstrations in householding techniques, such as cooking and spinning, take place in a reconstructed tenant farmer's house.

A visitor center contains a museum shop and a café. It also serves as the visitor center for Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate.

Philipsburg Manor, on Route 9 in Sleepy Hollow, is open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily except Tuesday April-October; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily except Tuesday November-December; and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. weekends only in March. Guided tours. Admission fee. 914-631-8200

Information found on www.hudsonrivervalley.com