~MUSEUM
HOURS~
Memorial Day
to June
30
Friday,
Saturday &
Monday
11 am to 4 pm
July to
early September
Daily except
Sunday
11 am - 4 pm
This
is just a brief overview of the Museum, we invite you to visit and tour
the exhibit rooms that are overflowing with displays. |
Room
#8
Lumber
Camp Office
This
continuation of the lumber camp exhibit shows the office and bedroom
for
the camp boss. The lumberjacks lived in bunkhouses.
The
early polaris snow traveller was used in the sugar bush during tapping,
and sometimes hauled sleighs with gathering tubs, when the snow was
deep.
| All
of the tools in this display were made by Jack F. Walsh. He was the
blacksmith
in Lyons Falls years ago. He could iron completely from A to Z a buggy
or a wagon.In the lumber woods the heavy skidding tongs |
 |
were
always
breaking, and peaveys and canthooks, and chains, and toggle hooks and
so
on. The woods people began getting him to forge these things for them.
Even the long racks of tools that he used, he himself made - hammers
and
sledges and cutting tools and dies for shaping things, literally
hundreds
of them. The fame of his forgings was wide spread; his customers came
from
far distant States. |
