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Kitchen Tours

Genesee Country Village & Museum is conveniently located South of Rt 90 in Le Roy / Mumford, New York.

  • The Pioneer Farmstead, c. 1820s
  • The Jones Farm, c. mid-1850s
  • The Livingston-Backus House, mid-1850s
  • Hosmer’s Inn, 1830s
  • You can even help in the kitchen!!
    or make cheese…


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    Check out the first photo with at least 3 different kinds of turn-of-the-century stoves… The Paynesville Area Historical Museum is in Paynesville, Minnesota.

    1940s kitchen.

    Sisters cooking together made the work more fun…particularly with their loved-ones waiting for the results of their cooking! Note: Linoleum floor, packaged flour, low kitchen table being used as a work table.

    old country kitchen.

    Old country kitchens still exist in the backwoods throughout the United States. Notice the wood-burning Atlantic stove, made in Portland, Maine circa 1920 with the attached hot-water heater.

    Hearth at the open-air museum, Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum in Kommern-Germany, photo by Willy Horsch.

    Hearth at the open-air museum, Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum in Kommern-Germany; photo by Willy Horsch


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