A Trip Back in History

We recently took a little field trip to a historic community put together by the Montgomery County Library system. A very sweet lady in our homeschooling group got this set up and we were able to have a guided tour of these houses (that we previously had only gotten to peek in the windows at!).

 

 

 

 

This was a neat replica of the city of Montgomery from long ago.

 

 

 

 

inside the first house - they had set these places up really nice.

Bella sitting on the bed in one of the houses

 

they are putting up a church bell here

 

 

inside a "large" cabin. I found it interesting that this cabin was built just a couple of years before the pier and beam house we had just been in!

 

 

this man did something "odd" with the household chamber pot - he built a seat for it.. this was unheard of back in his day

wooden hinges!

 

He also built a very fancy cradle

 

and see the "bathtub" here - most folks just washed in a large steel tub but this man had built a "bathtub" that was easy to dump out.

 

neat chimney that Mr Jack (our tour guide) redid himself

 

Mr. Jack showing the kids the little hole in the wall where the master of the house shot indians from.

 



Jaybird in the "kids' part of the house - the upstairs loft area

 



 all the boys at the well

 



 

another handy pour spout on a dish pan

our two beautiful daughters

Mrs. Jordan playing ball with Thomas