The Mercer Museum

In an effort to avoid the rain (and still get out of the house), we took Aunt Erin and Uncle John to the Mercer Museum, a collection of pre-industrial age artifacts housed creatively in a large "castle" built by Henry C. Mercer in 1916.

There were several "floors" overlooking the center space filled with all kinds of tools, boats, carriages, and machinery. Baskets and bassinets (among other things) hung from the ceiling.

Small rooms highlighted specific pre-industrial crafts, including hat-making, glass-making, shoe-making, farming, and dairy and meat production (to name a only a few).

The castle from the outside hardly seemed big enough to hold such a large and unusual collection.