Farm Museums in New England


Billings Farm & Museum
Explore one of the finest operating dairy farms in America and a museum of Vermont's rural past – your gateway to Vermont's rural heritage. Interactive programs and activities give visitors a first-hand sampling of actual farm work, animals and agricultural processes. Museum Website

New Hampshire Farm Museum
Discover 50 acres of field and forest, a working farm, historic houses and barns, a blacksmith shop, a shoe shop and exhibits on agriculture and rural life at New Hampshire Farm Museum. Seasonal events include 'Old Time Farm Days' in August, 'Apple Day' in September and 'Harvest Festival' in October.
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Carriage Museum of Skyline Farm
Discover a unique collection of carriages and sleighs used in bygone days. What you will see at the Skyline Farm Carriage Museum in North Yarmouth, Maine are representative examples of the types of vehicles that would have been seen on the country roads and the city streets in New England. These vehicles were in regular use, mainly for personal transportation, during the carriage era from the late 18th century to the 1920's.
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Coggeshall Farm Museum
Coggeshall Farm Museum is a living historical farm set on 48 acres in Bristol, Rhode Island. The museum depicts Bristol's agrarian life in the year 1799 through live interpretation, historic structures, and heirloom plants and animals. Interpreters dressed in accurate reproduction clothing carry out the same tasks practiced on Rhode Island's coastal tenant farms during the Federal Period.
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The Dudley Farm Museum
Located in Guilford, Connecticut, the Dudley Farm Museum features a century old "Big Barn," on the property, kitchen garden, maple sugar house, ice house, a farmer's market and more.
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