Slide show #1 ----Cottage Restoration:
Key steps in the reclamation and restoration of the Cottage from its initial discovery in 1993 to 2006 (click on image to left for show)
Slide Show #2 ----We're Open!:
Opening Day festivities (July 1, 2008) and a look inside the Tollkeeper's Cottage. (click on image to left for show)
Slide Show #3 ----Updated! Ongoing activities 2009 -2015
We hold a variety of activities such as building birdhouses from wood left over (click on image to left for show)
Slide Show #4 ----NEW! 1875 Painting of the cottage... also more activities from the last few years (click on image to left for show)
Slide Show #5 ---NEW! School groups who visit our Cottage learn how hard children used to work. Only after they have done their share of
collecting eggs, carrying water, dying cloth, or churning butter, do they get to play old-fashioned games like ring toss,
marbles, or horseshoes! (thanks Docent Marilyn!)
Slide Show #6 ---NEW! Our gift shop follows the Tollkeepers’ tradition – waste not, want not! We make our sales goods from recycled materials whenever possible – the wool from a sweater with a moth hole turns into a new pair of mitts! People give us leftover knitting wool, for socks, doll’s clothes, and hats. We make door snakes from left over cloth.
We also sell used books, and books on history. We publish material on local history, and walking tours of the neighbourhood.(email us about delivery during the pandemic)
