IN THE CELLAR is found some of the heavy tools- harrows, plows, threshing and winnowing machines, horse treadmill and blacksmith tools.
  

  
ON THE FIRST FLOOR are many wagons and sleighs from by-gone days.  Ox-cart to stage coach, a clipper sleigh to a market pung, the tin pedlar cart to a century-old mowing machine, all combined with the lesser equipment as ox yokes and harnesses used in the days when oxen and horses were the only power.

  
UP-STAIRS- Here are found exhibits of industry, hand-work, manufacture, and craft found on the farm and in the kitchen.  Cheese presses, butter churns, apple parers, food choppers, as well as grain cradles and frails, winnowing baskets, and sap buckets.   Machinery for making brooms, the first used in the United States in the town of Hadley, the first corn planters made in South Deerfield, vegetable planters, harness vises, and even home-made traps to catch animals for fur and food.  The beginning of home conveniences in washing machines, stoves, flat irons, and the use of tin ware is also shown.
  
  
UNDER THE RAFTERS on the top floor is found industry of the home.  Flax wheels, spinning wheels, looms, flax breakers and carders, niddy-noddies, yarn winders, and all the equipment necessary to keep the family in clothing and furnish some of the comforts of the home.
 

   

   
    
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