DINING ROOM: During the colonial period, many people ate out of a shared "wooden trenchers" shown on the table. They also ate from shared metal cookpots.
DINING ROOM: This fireplace was installed in 1930. The original home had a fireplace here that was removed during the 1800 addition.
DINING ROOM: Most families owned both a "Great Spinning Wheel" for wool and a pedal-driven foot Trundle wheel for flax and worsted wool with longer strands. The Great Wheel is shown here.
DINING ROOM: Display of various colonial dinnerware. Pictures of the Fisher and Richardson families are on the walls.
KITCHEN: The Society has a collection of kitchen tool. Some of the items display here is an apple peeler, sausage stuffer, and fly screens.
KITCHEN: More of the kitchen artifacts owned by the Society. Shown are flour sieves, spice grinders, a mortar and pestle, and other items for preparing food.
KITCHEN: The kitchen fireplace was added during the 1800 expansion. Besides the main fireplace, it contains two Dutch ovens, and an iron tub used to heat water for washing clothes.
KITCHEN: Shown are some of the collection of flat irons
PANTRY: The pantry was used for food storage and cooking utensils.
PANTRY: The pantry was used for food storage and cooking utensils.
The east bedroom is part of the original house. The bed's mattress is filled with straw. Hay, horsehair, and cotton was also used. The mattress is supported by ropes strung across the bed. Also, note the trundle bed. It was pulled out at night. The quilt c. 1890 was made by Mary Beals Evans wife of Frank Evens. It is quilted on both sides.
PARLOR: The parlor is part of the 1800 addition. It has its own fireplace.
PARLOR: The parlor is part of the 1800 addition. It has its own fireplace.
PARLOR: The parlor is part of the 1800 addition. It has its own fireplace.
PARLOR: A display of personal items.
CHAOS ROOM: The small corner room, which may have been used for sleeping, was known as "chaos," perhaps because it was unheated and, with a door to the outside, subject to the elements. Interestingly, the interior of this room was never modernized; the paneling was never papered and plastered over. We are using the chaos room to show the tools used in colonial times.
CHAOS ROOM: Special exhibit of shoemaking and repairing tools.
CHAOS ROOM: The small corner room, which may have been used for sleeping, was known as "chaos," perhaps because it was unheated and, with a door to the outside, subject to the elements. Interestingly, the interior of this room was never modernized; the paneling was never papered and plastered over. We are using the chaos room to show the tools used in colonial times.