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While the city life of Elizabethtown
flourished, outlying areas were largely agricultural. One hundred fifty families
tended 40,000 acres of farmland.
Life on the farm was demanding on all members of the family with taxing chores for the head of the household, the youngest of children and everyone in between. Farm families had to produce every necessity of life -- shelter, food and clothing -- while caring for their land, crops and animals.
Step inside authentic farmhouses and experience the challenges and rewards of life on an eighteenth century farmstead at the following sites:
- Dr. William Robinson Plantation
- Woodruff House/Eaton Store
- Salt Box Museum
- Carter House
- Miller-Cory House Museum
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Dr William Robinson Plantation
593 Madison Hill Rd.
Clark |
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Features
Medicine Room
Smokehouse, corncrib and well
Museum Shop
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Woodruff House / Eaton Store Museum
111 Conant St.
Hillside |
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Features
Potbellied stove in an early general store
Reproduction post and beam barn
Memorobilia from Hillside resident and Baseball great Phil Rizzuto
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The Saltbox Museum
1350 Springfield Ave.
New Providence |
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Features
Hand-woven coverlet
Brewster clock
Copper lustre tea set
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Carter House
90 Butler Pkwy.
Summit |
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Features
- Furnished rooms and special exhibits
- Collection of iron kitchen implements
- Tool collection displayed in barn
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Miller-Cory House Museum
614 Mountain Ave.
Westfield |
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Features
- 18th century open hearth cooking demonstrations
- Corn crib, necessary and well house
- Costumed interpreters
- Museum shop
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www.westfieldnj.com
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