Food
Part of the "fire place" where cooking was done.
What is a hearth?
What is a spitoon
It let young gentlemen callers know when it was time to leave.
What is a dating candle.
What is a mill stone.
Location where a dairy shed might be located.
What is near a stream.
Type of craftsman used to fashion cooking pots and the racks holding them above the fire.
What is a blacksmith?
It was close to the house and contained herbal remedies.
What was the kitchen garden.
It kept babies safe in one of the most dangerous rooms in the house.
What is a baby minder?
Although it was ugly by today's standards, it did allow fancy dishes, etc to "stand out" in corner cabinets.
What is paint?
What is a split rail fence
It was used once a week, it was difficult to regulate the temperature.
What is a bread oven.
What is a punishment room?
Super expensive, today, a good quality one could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What are chairs?
What is apple jack.
Tree that colonists would plant immediately for dye, livestock food, and strong wood
What is the hickory tree
Root vegies like turnips and cabbage would "keep" for months here.
Where is the root cellar?
Usually painted a "pretty pink", it was located off the kitchen
What is a sick room?
These were square for easy transport to a neighbor's house.
What are liquor bottles.
Town on Long Island's east end that has a slave cemetary
What is Orient?
Location of the oldest apple tree in America.
Where is East Hampton
Perfect for a family meal of stew, don't expect forks to be placed around it, though.
What is a trencher?
The rocks that formed the foundation of the house were often not originally from LI. Instead they came down from New England for what original purpose?
What is ballast on a ship?
What are lopped trees
Geologic time period white clay (that is getting "squeezed out" on the North Shore) dates from.
What is the Cretaceous Period.