Building #23 is the Log Schoolhouse.
Here you can follow in the footsteps of the early students who attended a log school in the 1840s as you sit on the luncheon benches and learn about the "3R's" from our schoolhouse teacher. Since children helped on the farm in the spring and fall, many students in the 1840s only came to school during the winter.
Garden of The Witmer-Roth Home.
Building #24 is The Witmer-Roth Home.
Down in the kitchen which was actually on the first floor and they had no stairway inside. You have to go outside to go downstairs or upstairs. Most of their time was probably spent down here in the kitchen in the 1800s.
This was a box that they would use to put their dough in to rise.
She uses a cookbook from that era as well which I find super cool and intriguing!
The 1844-era home of Anna Sauder Witmer Roth and her family is a favorite stop at Pioneer Settlement. In this home, you'll learn more about the woman's role in the mid-19th century. On most days, you will find the guide preparing a meal at the stone hearth or outdoor bake oven. Depending on the day and season, guests can often help prepare foods gathered from the garden, help church butter, or make homemade noodles.
On this day, she was making apple soup. :)
Dutch ovens. :)
After visiting downstairs, you can go upstairs and see where they lived and slept. The parents slept here and the rest of the children would have slept in the loft.
A cozy room.
The corn was so tall!
Building #25 is the Eicher Cabin.
Drying green onions.
The activities and gardens of this homestead reflect life in the 1850s in northwest Ohio. You will see the cookstove and other furnishings reflect the conveniences of the time. Jacob and Barbara Eicher lived here as grandparents with grown children.
Building #26 is The Jail.
Jails were common fixtures in communities large and small and are often the sources of many fun tales of the "notorious" criminals and bad guys who may or may not have slept there. Step into this 1860s jail to see two cells, each with a plank to serve as a bed. The unusual construction of 2x6 blocks stacked on top of each other and nailed together helped prevent a craft criminal from sawing his way to freedom.
Building #27 is the Peter Stuckey Farm.
This is a recreation of the 1870s farm where Peter and Catherine (Yoder) Stuckey lived and worked. As you visit the clapboard-sided log house, summer kitchen, wagon shop, and barn, you’ll learn more about Peter’s time on the farm, his wagon-making business, and how their farm prospered as the result of the drainage of the Great Black Swamp.
The summer kitchen of the Stuckey farm.
The barn of the Stuckey farm.
Inside of the summer kitchen.
They would have not only cooked meals here but also did their canning.
As well as their laundry which would have been a very hot job!
I like to see what they used back then! Like this!
There's no better country smell than a barn full of hay. :)
Building #28 - Pioneer Settlement Restroom
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