A Visit to Sturbridge Village

I recently visited Old Sturbridge Village with my Mayflower cousins from the New Hampshire Mayflower Society.  We took a nice field trip to this living history museum in June.  I hadn't been there since the 1990s when I chaperoned my daughter's fourth grade field trip to Old Sturbridge Village.  This museum re-creates life in rural New England in the 1830s. We had a wonderful visit, and hope to return again soon with our granddaughter.

Re-enactors weeding the herb gardens

Inside the General Store.  In the 1830s the store
carried mostly handmade items, just before the Industrial Revolution

Springtime on a New England farm

Preparing the mid-day meal for the farm family. 

The millpond and covered bridge

A rural home with a well sweep

Vincent and the two-holer

The village tavern, where we ate lunch

Inside the tavern

Pastures, farm houses and the path through the wood to the village center

A workbench in the cooper's workshop

The potter busy at his wheel

The village kiln for firing pottery

The village green

Old Sturbridge Village website   https://www.osv.org/ 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, " A Visit to Sturbridge Village", Nutfield Genealogy, posted September 8, 2017, (https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-visit-to-sturbridge-village.html: accessed [access date]).