Shelburne Museum

The interactive Settlers’ House invites visitors to experience Vermont life in the 1790s. A costumed guide at the two-room log house cooks over an open hearth and tends the adjacent vegetable garden and flax field. Visitors may play settlement-era board games, test a feather bed, and try on 18th-century clothing.

An outdoor bake oven and reproduction English-style barn, which serves as an exhibition and demonstration site for early American crafts, complete the site.

Settlers’ House was built about 1846 in East Charlotte, Vermont of hand-hewn and dovetailed beech and pine timbers. The ceiling and floor joists are dovetailed into the outside walls. The house was moved to the Museum in 1955, and the barn was built as a working demonstration in 2001.