Raye’s Mustard Mill Museum is a working stone-ground mustard mill and mustard shop in Eastport, Maine that moved to that location in 1903. The family began making mustard to compliment the local sardine industry.
Speaking of sardines, there is a Sardine Museum in Lubec, Maine — travel from the mustard museum either 38 miles by car, or only 4 miles by boat.
Acadian 1950s kitchen from the Pelletier-Marquis House Museum in St. Agatha, near Canada in upstate Maine
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The Albert House in Madawaska, Maine property stayed in the Albert family from when it was granted to them by the King in 1786 until 1970. Now it is a museum and contains this later-1800s country kitchen.
Westwego Historical Society arranged a splendid early kitchen at the Westwego Historical Museum. See the kitchen picture on their website. Displays of 1920s-1930s kitchens abound in select historic house museums throughout the United States, and also in local history museums such as the Cole Camp Museum Cole Camp in Missouri, and The Warner Museum in Concord, New York. Like
At the Laurel Valley Village/Plantation Museum and Country Store in Thibodaux, Louisiana you can visit the sugar cane plantation museum and view the outside of the historic sugar cane farming village left intact. Like
You will find 3 kitchen displays and a moonshine still at The McCreary Museum in Kentucky representing different eras. One kitchen represents 1790, another circa 1900, and lastly, a 1920s Miner’s kitchen.
Another moonshine still is displayed in Kentucky at Barthell Coal Mining Camp.
Note the kitchen wallpaper at Granny’s house. Like
Kentucky Fried Chicken’s founder Colonel Sanders first pressure-cooked his famous fried chicken in a 6-seat lunchroom at a gas station in the 1930s. A replica of the kitchen is on display at the original lunchroom location at the Kentucky Fried Chicken® in Corbin Kentucky. Like
Wow! The American Museum of Baking in Manhattan has samples of Egyptian bread, cake more than 3,800 years old, priceless 200 year old baking books, and much more! The museum is part of The American Institute of Baking on Baker’s Way…near a major road named “Pillsbury!” Like
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The first two full weeks of every June in Abilene Kansas children attend Pioneer Camp where they churn butter, cook and discover the other skills needed to live 100 years ago.
Call Heritage Center of Dickinson County 785-263-2681.
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Valentine Diners were made of metal and manufactured in Kansas. On their website you’ll discover the history of these pre-fabricated metal lunchrooms and diners — even including the White Castle buildings.
For a closer look at the early fast-food industry visit the Kansas Museum of History in Topeka.
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In the 1780s Oliver Evans of Delaware invented a grist mill design that was more efficient. Before this, grist mills hadn’t changed their design since the Middle Ages. He was the 3rd person to be granted a patent by the newly opened American Patent Office. Out of necessity in the 1790s many grist mill owners switched to Evan’s grist mill design to stay competitive in the marketplace.
His design included a hopper to process and dry grain, automated conveyances, and other updates.
By the 1830s mills were powered by steam engines, and no longer had to be located on a river to generate power.
In 1850 there were over 100,000 gristmills. Because people had to visit the mill weekly to get their flours, the local mill became a social event. Now there are fewer than 1,000 mills in the United States, but some are open to the public. Like
If you’d like to visit one, here is a partial list:
More Mills:
See the wikipedia site for List of Water Mills, tidemills, and Gristmill
See Threshing and Milling post
Reference:
* Gristmills, Grinding grain, preserving history by Marti Attoun. American Profile. Harold Rapp, president of the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills.
* Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, by Andrew F. Smith, 2009
* The Young Mill-Wright and Miller’s Guide, by Oliver Evans, 1795
You want to get amazing ideas for your kitchen–besides creating a scrapbook or a desire wheel from tearing magazine pages, try a home-kitchen fundraising tour!
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Historic New England posted 9 historic New England kitchens ranging from 1765 to 1968 as part of their 2009 celebration of the Year of the Kitchen. Their traveling exhibition “America’s Kitchens” opens at the museum at New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord, NH.
2011 Exhibit Update: The America’s Kitchens exhibit is now at the American History Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts and ends on October 31, 2011.
