Old Sturbridge Village

The Boston Sr. Missionaries had their Senior Training at the Old Sturbridge Village

and we kind enough to invite us along once again!

Guess Who

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Elder and Sister Excell

Sister Ashton and Sister Excell outside the
"Friends Meetinghouse"
The Friends Meetinghouse is a meetinghouse of the Religious Society of Friends,
Also known as Quakers


The Fiddler along the pathway - He played while they would
try to get visitors to dance along

Some of the missionaries getting with it!

Stage Coach

Nineteenth-century New Englanders called this building a meetinghouse. This one was build in Sturbridge in 1832 and moved to the museum in 1947. Buildings like this were used every Sunday for worship by members of the local Congregational church. There were morning and afternoon services, each over two hours long. Christmas and Easter services were very rare, but there was always a special Thanksgiving morning service. Periodically the community would meet here to hold town meetings. They would also hold concerts, public meetings, lectures, and Independence Day celebrations.

Inside the meetinghouse

This is what they called Town Pound. If your livestock got out they would be

put in the pound and you would have to pay to get them out.

This was posted inside the Shoe shop. An historic ten footer, which was a

small backyard shop structure built in the 18th and 19th centuries in

New England to serve as a shoemaker's shop. I didn't get a picture of the tools - ect.

Display of shoes - they didn't look to comfortable!

There were several different houses to walk through - that would have

furniture of the day in them

They had the fire going - think that would have been really hot to

work around in the summer time.

She is getting ready to start dying some yarn

The colors for the dye usually game from different plants

Demonstration of shooting the musket

It makes you jump because it is so loud - even though you know

what it sounds like! When it shoots fire comes out the top.

Now the Grist Mill

One of the stones that would have been used at the Grist Mill

Inside the Mill

Then the saw mill - they say this is still working, but

wasn't while we were there.

Outside the mill

Logs on the platform ready to go into the mill

And . . . . . the saw!

Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a living museum located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in the United States, which re-creates life in rural New England during the 1790s through 1830s (the Romantic Period). It is the largest living museum in New England, covering more than 200 acres OSV has a large staff of historians in costume, 59 historic buildings on 200 acres, three authentic water-powered mills and two covered bridges. Visitors can ride in a stagecoach, view antiques, heirloom gardens, meet the farm animals, and take part in hands-on crafts year-round.