Planting Fields Foundation is in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. This garden and mansion is well worth a visit.
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Planting Fields Doors
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Bayard Cutting Farm Doors
Farm at the Bayard Cutting Arboretum. I bought some of their eggs at the welcome center by the main parking lot.
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Beaver Creek Doors
The historical homes on Beaver Creek Road, Hagerstown, Maryland are lovely.
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Beaver Creek Inn & Spa
We had a lovely overnight stay at a charming Bed and Breakfast The Spa at Beaver Creek | Hagerstown, MD 21740 (beavercreekinnandspa.com). I would love to go back there someday have the time to properly enjoy the amenities there. We even had to skip breakfast as it was served to late for an early start. The owner kindly made us a picnic breakfast. We needed to get going early to arrive back in NYC before dark. A small disappointment was the bathtub in our room. I could not make the plug stay closed (there was a trick to it that I didn’t know) and I needed assistance to get out of the huge bathtub. I don’t have a bathtub at home and a nice soak would have been a treat.
Farm Museum
The Mountain Farm Museum is a collection of farm buildings assembled from locations throughout the Great Smoky Mountains Park. Visitors can explore a log farmhouse, barn, apple house, springhouse, and a working blacksmith shop to get a sense of how families may have lived one hundred years ago. Most of the structures were built in the late 19th century and were moved here in the 1950s. The Davis House offers a rare chance to view a log house built from chestnut wood before the chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut in our forests during the 1930s and early 1940s. The museum is adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.
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Covered Bridges in Tennessee
For a change of scenery we explored the area for covered bridges. We saw two of the 6 in this list: List of covered bridges in Tennessee – Wikipedia. The countryside is very lovely in Sevier County. Included are two old houses at the end.
Mingus Mill
Half a mile north of the Oconaluftee Visitor Center is Mingus Mill. Built in 1886, this historic gristmill uses a water-powered turbine instead of a water wheel to power all of the machinery in the building. Water flows down a millrace to the mill. There is a working cast iron turbine. When it is open a miller demonstrates the process of grinding corn into cornmeal. Mingus Mill is temporarily closed for preservation and rehabilitation work.
7 Facts About Mingus Mill – Grist Mill in the Smoky Mountains Also read the fascinating history of Charles Mingus – Wikipedia.
Cades Cove Doors
I did 5 posts about Cades Cove starting on May 21 (see right side menu bar for links to the posts). Historicbuildings/cades-cove.html
This is the last one from Tennessee with old doors for Thursday Doors https://nofacilities.com/2024/05/30/on-board-the-delta-pearl/.
