Pictures of the Living History Farmstead ....

If you click on the picture, you'll be able to read a bit of the history of
the farmstead. The smaller cabin is the picture below this and it is now
used as a blacksmith shop.

This is the small cabin that the family of 10( Dad, Mom and eight

children) lived in for 17 yrs.

The layout is like this; to the right of the front door is the dining parlor;

to the left is the living room and straight back is the kitchen. The

staircase to upstairs is to the left of the kitchen, just inside the front

door. The upstairs has four bedrooms and a larger room( over the

kitchen) and was set up as a sewing/ spinning, weaving and quilting

room. There is a covered porch off the kitchen and the well with

pitcher pump is just 5-8 ft away from the porch area. There is a root

cellar, two seat outhouse, blacksmith shop, barn, garden shed with

cold frames on the south side.

The gardens( flower and produce) are absolutely beautiful! They

contain only heritage plants and it was so very exciting to see all the

flowers growing, that I didn't know even grew in MT.

If you click the picture, you can see the back porch and the roof top of

outside entry to the root cellar( far left, just past the pine tree) The

window to the left is the kitchen area, it is actually quit large for a

home of this time period.

A picture of a sample of the flowerbeds and one of the four vegetable

gardens.( click the picture to see larger version) If this farmstead

was closer to our local I'd be on the volunteer list, for sure!*wink*

I couldn't go inside without paying for admission again, so no inside

pictures, sorry. :o(