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aristocracy

Farm Life - 1686-1840

Dr. William Robinson Plantation
Woodruff House/Eaton Store
Salt Box Museum
Carter House
Miller-Cory House Museum
 

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.

 
Dr. William Robinson Plantation
593 Madison Hill Rd., Clark
 
dr william robinson plantation
  • Medicine Room
  • Smokehouse, corncrib and well
  • Museum Shop
 
Woodruff House / Eaton Store Museum
111 Conant St., Hillside
 

woodruff house

• Potbellied stove in an early general store
• Reproduction post and beam barn
• Memorobilia from Hillside resident and Baseball great
  Phil Rizzuto

 
The Saltbox Museum
1350 Springfield Ave., New Providence
 

saltbox museum

• Hand-woven coverlet
• Brewster clock
• Copper lustre tea set

 
Carter House
90 Butler Pkwy., Summit
 

carter house

• Furnished rooms and special exhibits
• Collection of iron kitchen implements
• Tool collection displayed in barn

 
Miller-Cory House Museum
614 Mountain Ave., Westfield
 

miller-cory house museum

• 18th century open hearth cooking demonstrations
• Corn crib, necessary and well house
• Costumed interpreters
• Museum shop

www.westfieldnj.com

 
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Early Aristocracy
 1665 - 1812

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Farm Life
 1686 - 1840

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Revolutionary Front
 Line 1763 - 1783

revolutionary front


 

Commerce and Industry
 1820 - 1920

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Victorian Resorts and Suburbs
1837 - 1920

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