Bement-Billings Farmstead Museum - Newark Valley, NY
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ripraff
N 42° 14.170 W 076° 10.732
18T E 402730 N 4676670
This is a homestead from 1790. The house has been added to but still has the original kitchen.
Waymark Code: WMP9Q9
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2015
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The house was donated in 1977 to the Newark Valley Historical Society as a living museum. It is furnished as it was in the early 1800s. Additional structures have been moved to the site, a reconstructed blacksmith shop, a threshing barn, a wood shop, a carriage shed and a Welcome Center, where classes are held in skills such as basket weaving.
Picnics, reunions and weddings can be scheduled on site.
The gift shop is in the old summer kitchen. It has pottery, old fashion candy, candles, baskets, tin punched items, notecards.
There is an Apple Festival held here in the fall.
Theme:
Cultural History, farming and other skills for living in the 1800s. These include blacksmithing, open-hearth cooking, spinning, weaving, wood working. There are costumed interpreters.
Street Address:
Route 38, North of Newark Valley
Newark Valley, NY 13811
Food Court: no
Gift Shop: yes
Hours of Operation:
noon - 4 p.m. weekends from July to first week of October
Cost: 2.00 (listed in local currency)
Museum Size: Small
Relevant Web Site: [Web Link]
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