Wicoff House

As part of this year's Founder's Day celebration, they re-opened the town museum which had been under renovations for quite some time. It was the perfect opportunity to go in and check out the place.

Looks like there was some kind of ribbon cutting thing, with chairs set up for an audience, that we missed. The door was wide open inviting people in. 

Click on the "Read more" below to see some old stuff.

I guess they have to mention whatever fund payed for this. Because somebody has to pay for it. Otherwise it's just a bunch of old junk?

There was a bunch of free souvenir literature and pamphlets. We didn't take any because it's hard to carry that around and still get pictures.

Haha this funny shirt was in a frame. The joke here is that nobody knows where Plainsboro is, it's next to Princeton. But this shirt is trying to point out that... oh nevermind, you get it.

Who makes these miniature models? Somebody spent a lot of time on this. I was a little nervous climbing in here for a picture, I'll be careful not to Godzilla-crush anything.

Paper maps? Don't we have these in our phones?

Does anybody have a "vest"-ed interest in this early 20th century vest?

Looks like this is the really old stuff, 3000-9000 year old hand axe. See? Even so very long ago, they could axe you a question.

This hat looked super old. I felt like maybe one winter day, we could put it on a snowman and just, y'know, see what happens.

You could probably figure out where this sign was posted since it says it's 3 to Plainsboro and 3 to Cranbury. 3 what? Probably not kilometers.

Here's a giant old potato cutter. Looks clean. Does this look about 10 times the size it needs to be?

We glanced down in the floor was the classic movie-style ventilation shaft big enough to crawl through. So that made us laugh thinking about any random characters hiding in there.

A 1952 cookbook? There's got to be something good in there, right?

A receipt from 1904! Who's worried about keeping receipts for over 100 years? Um, HOARDER much?

This guy bought $8.27 of stuff back in 1887. How much longer until your Wal-Mart receipt gets put in a museum?

 Wide-open, no-screen window. That's how they rolled in the 1800's.

 There's a few big empty kids activity rooms in the back. Here's something about a... Thaumatrophe? That's the paper spin thing with like a bird on one side, a cage on the other, and when you spin it, it looks like you got a bird in a cage.

This cross-stitching art looks like video game pixels, but was done a long time before video games. Mind. Blown.

 Promo swag from the late 19th century? Paddle ball toy for some kind of  "Hatter."

 1938 Baseball Glove. Back then, nobody "collected" things like this, so you know this thing caught many balls.

 This local guy Jeffers patented a calculator for figuring out cow nutrition requirements? You need a calculator for that?

 Surge Bucket Milker description says it was invented in Chicago, why is it in this tiny museum?

 Cow boots. So remember this if you feel silly putting boots on your dog, there actually IS something worse.

 Another old receipt, from 1877. This guy had that one junk drawer that nobody looked in for hundreds of years and now it's all museum stuff.

 Here's a medieval crest in the floor tiles. So if you are trying to figure out that mystery with the cryptic clues.....

 There's got to be an old creepy guy who knows about the history of these crests around here somewhere.

One in each corner of the room? Is this some kind of puzzle, now? Okay what part mentions the 3-Bananas Lion?

Okay just for completeness, here's the last crest. If you figure it out, visit the museum and try to open the secret passage to the next puzzle.

 Native American arrowheads. Found on various local farms. Is it not cool to mention that's kind of like littering? Just leaving your arrowheads on the ground? Like hundreds of years ago.

 Fireplace in the middle of the house probably kept everybody nice and toasty.

 Look at that tiny waist! Ouch! No cookies for you!

 1885 Bible. I know these are pretty common, and it's got all the same stuff in it, but it's still cool to see this.

Another old book, this one is about... Math. The stuff is also still accurate and relevant to the modern world. In the same cabinet as that Bible? Whoa.