Pioneer Room

The Pioneer Room contains numerous items related to working the land. Lumbering, quarrying, and farming artifacts are displayed here. Included is a small general store and post office that were both in use until 1967.

Of particular interest here are locally made products of the Maydole Hammer company of Norwich and Hart Pottery of Sherburne. There is a model of a Guilford farm that demonstrates a horizontal horse treadmill, used to gain access to the hay mow to store crops, and also to power a saw and to churn butter.

In the middle of the room is a large heavy wooden wheeled ox-cart used by a pioneer family in the early 19th century.