This museum was comprised of 15 different buildings. The first building had artifacts from the 1700's to the 1960's over four floors. We started at the top with the oldest items, wooden tea pots, wooden water jugs and wooden spoons. Metal was a premium material not affordable to most of the population. Each floor had items from the following century until we reached the 1960's where it felt like we were visiting our grandmothers. Formica on the cabinetry, meat grinders, glassware and other implements were instantly recognizable. We headed over to a few outbuildings and saw the progression of farm equipment from mostly wooden to more modern gas powered machines.
A big sports complex next to the museum grounds
Fish, fish and fishy
Building #1
Very distinct look
The entrance
Right off the bat, there are older items on display. The item top left is a portable anvil. Drive the pointy end into the ground and then the cross bars keep it from going further into the ground, while the item can be worked on the top cross bar
Wooden comb for working wool
A wooden spinning machine making wool into thread
Great woodwork
Horns for canteens or gunpowder and a wooden teapot
Various carpentry tools
The progression of women's undergarments
A great clock housing
A fantastic head board
Roasting chestnuts
the board could swing up to get more space or down to use it as a working space
So many wooden implements
Wooden bowls, teapots and cups
A photo of a smokehouse
Now artifacts from 1830 to 1930
The cider is a big thing. The mountains isolated this region from the wine regions and grains were too hard to grow so no beer. So they planted apples and made hard cider
Industrialization allowed for metal implements to be made and more folks earning wages means more folks could afford them
Locks on thei bookshelf allowed for the special items to be protected
All sore to hygiene items were now available
From syringes to irrigators
A shower that could keep the gray water for reuse
Very elaborate irons
High tech sewing machines
His and hers cups
A fancy parlor set
After the ceramic industry almost died out one family resurrected it
A communal kiln
Grandma's cupbord
Hand cranked meat slicer
Wooden cart
Buggies
Iron on the wheels
Wood or hay would be contained buthe tall spikes
