Fairfield County Museum

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Fairfield County Museum

• Winnsboro, South Carolina
• [phone]
• Open
• 10 5 Tuesdays Fridays
• 10 3 Saturdays
• www.fairfieldchamber.org/museum.html

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A Womans World

• Butter Churns.
• Treenware includes these wooden tools such as
  rolling pins, spoons, and a pestle made for
  grinding food in a mortar bowl.
• The cast iron items are from left to right a
  sausage stuffer, bowl or pot, and a fancy apple
  corer or peeler.

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A Womans World

• Left to right, top row Sweeper made of field
  broom straw, metal candle mold, sausage paddle,
  lemon squeezer.
• Second row advertising thermometer, metal ice
  shaver.
• Bottom row curd or cheese strainer, ice cream
  mold.

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A Womans World

• Treenware spoons, rolling pin, a nutmeg grater
  and two blade choppers.
• These old flat irons had removable wooden handles
  that insulated the worker's hand from the heat of
  the iron.

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A Womans World

• It was a Victorian fashion to braid the hair of a
  loved one into hollow beads, bands, or cords. The
  hair of a deceased person was also inserted into
  lockets for remembrance.
• Another Victorian past time was creating
  beautiful autograph albums, sometimes inserting
  mementos such as these braids.

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A Womans World
Far left This sampler was a practice needlework
piece for a young girl. Above 19th Century
sewing machines. Left Assorted waffle irons and
griddles.
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• From the left top corner A Saratoga potato
  slicer was a device that cut early French
  Fries.
• The wooden mallets were used for various purposes
  both for women's and men's jobs.
• The long handled floor scrubber was drilled with
  holes through which coarse corn shucks were
  threaded. As floors were usually worn and
  grooved, these shucks had to be replaced often.
• Another lemon squeezer hangs on the right.
• Below the scrubber is a long-handled gourd used
  for dipping water from the well bucket.
• The handle of a cleaver is seen at the bottom
  with the top of a coffee grinder seen in the
  corner.

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A Mans World

• The egg incubator was warmed by an oil-fired
  heater under a container of water attached on the
  right.
• The heavy metal gadget above was a portable horse
  hitch, carried from house to house by the town's
  doctor when out on calls.

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A Mans World

• Store owners sold sections of tobacco leaves cut
  for the buyer on this tobacco cutter. Smokers
  rolled their own cigarettes or crushed the leaf
  into their smoking pipes.

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Clothing

• Imagine having to wash your clothes by hand in a
  large iron pot heated over a fire. The wooden
  and tin scrub boards were used to scrub the cloth.

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Clothing

• The white men's shirt above had a removable
  buttoned collar. It is in the original folded
  and wrapped condition in which it was brought
  home from the launderer's establishment.
• The high topped ladies' boots and buttoned
  children's shoes were typical of the late 1800s
  to early 1900s. The white linen and leather
  slippers in the right corner were worn by a bride
  in 1787. The shoes' silk outer covering has long
  since disintegrated.

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Clothing

• Buttoning red child's shoes.
• These metallic thread and silk embroidered
  slippers were brought back to Winnsboro from the
  Orient by a turn-of-the-century missionary.

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Around the House

• The old Delco radio was made in 1938 and still
  works.
• The chamber pot cabinet with the comfortable
  wooden seat was used in the house when there was
  no indoor plumbing. The pot was regularly
  emptied outside.

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Around the House

• Cast lead soldiers date to World War I, whereas
  the airplanes were of more recent vintage. The
  cannons were universal boys toys for many
  generations.

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Around the Town

• Homemade beverages such as corn liquor were kept
  in these crockery jugs. Note the elaborate
  tobacco cutter on the left.
• The platform scales were used in the Winnsboro
  Post Office. Various counterweights are seen
  beside it.

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Medical Needs

• Doctors carried powdered pharmaceuticals in vials
  for patients on house calls.
• The tall beaker in the left corner is for
  collecting blood.
• The large saw in the right bottom corner was used
  in amputations.
• The medical book from 1805 contains a chapter on
  bloodletting with leeches and knives.

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Medical Needs
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School Supplies

• All students carried chalk and a slate board for
  their classwork assignments.
• The box of wax crayons looks familiar to those of
  today.
• The stiff covered notebook ledger was used
  universally.
• The two cards advertise cough syrup.

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The Fairfield County Museum