2006 GCHS Pioneer Homeplace Open House

Natalee is checking on the feather bed again, and this bed was covered with a beautiful patchwork quilt. It too has a rope mattress, and it also had a "key" that you could use to tighten up the rope to "sleep tight"!

Just in front of the bed to the left of the fireplace was a dresser with typical toiletry articles from the period.

The second room of the cabin was set up as a kitchen, hence the white washed walls. A collection of spices, cooking implements, and tools are around the fireplace.

Samuel is looking at more spices drying overhead. That's quite a nice oil lamp over the kitchen table behind him.

There were no WALMARTS just down the street in the 1870s so most folks had to make their own - everything! In the tray under the dish pan is home made lye soap which the students made.

Last stop on the tour was the welcome center we passed at the beginning. Here the students had set up a buffet for the visitors and it sure looked good!

We didn't waste any time in sampling the goodies on the buffet line.

Natalee told me that she helped make that flag on the wall as a school project back when she was a student.

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