Entry #7 - Museum Visit

My dad and I visited the Tomball Museum Center, specifically, Magdalene Charlton Memorial House. According to our tour guide, it was built in 1860 by Eugene Pillot. It was initially close to the Atascocito Trail, which is not Boudreaux Road. Magdalene Charlton moved to its current location and it was named the Griffin House in memory of Edmond B. Griffin. It became a museum in 1969. It still has most of its original furnishings.

These bills date back to the Civil War. The Confederacy, to be exact.

 I'm not quite sure who the dress/shoes/hat belonged to, but its looks like it would have been popular around the late 1880s-early 1900s. It was situated in what used to be the parents' room.

The pan-looking thing on the right is called a bed warmer. It was used to warm up people's beds during the colder seasons. You just put some hot coal in it, seal it up, and place it under the sheets. The thing in the middle is called a bellows. You can't see it now, but there's a leather pouch in between those handles that expands like an accordion when you pull them apart. When the handles are pushed back together, air is pushed out. These are still used today in buses and trams.

I believe this fan belonged to Griffin's aunt, who used it to fan herself while attending Lincoln's inauguration. And that fuzzy thing by the window is my head -__-

In the kitchen house. Apparently, the black thing in the front was a meat grinder O.O

The owner of the house, Edmond Griffin, and his daughter, taken 1905

This is just a collection of toys that may have belonged to the children of the house. The oldest one, I think, was made sometime in the late 1880s.

This is some really (really, really, really...) old tobacco. Horns worked great as hangers back then.

If I remember right, this thing was used to churn butter.

I really liked getting to see all of that stuff. There were only minor changes to the house (lighting, AC, bathrooms, etc), but everything there had been preserved from the 1800s. It was definitely fun seeing these weird objects and then finding out what they were used for.