Coggeshall Farm Museum

Bristol, RI

Historical
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Address: Coggeshall Farm Rd, Bristol, RI 02809, USA How do we get there? Number: 401 253 9062
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About this activity

Interpreters dressed in accurate reproduction clothing carry out the same tasks practiced on Rhode Island's coastal tenant farms during the Federal Period. As the weather and seasons change, so too does the work, following a continuous cycle of birth, raising, and eventual harvest.

Visitors to the museum encounter a New England farm at work in the years leading up to the Industrial Revolution; on the cusp of major social and technological change that would usher in new ways of understanding agriculture and the world. The museum utilizes its entire 48 acre site as an educational environment. Visitors experience the past using all of their senses and are invited to assist the farmers with their work.

The museum's collection is focused on process, not objects, and those who are willing may find meaning in the past through hands on learning. As an active, working restoration of a late 18th century farm, the museum is uniquely equipped to offer insight to a broad audience. By maintaining true relationships between every aspect of the farm through accurate restoration, reconstruction, and use, the museum is able to illustrate the complexities of life in pre-industrial Rhode Island. Presented with a working historic model of alternative methods and attitudes towards ways of life and work, visitors may come away from their experience better able to contextualize current issues such as consumerism and environmental sustainability.

Activity location

Directions

Off of Route 114 in Bristol, Rhode Island.

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How much does it cost?

Hilton

Adults

$7

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Children

$5

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Free Under

3 years.

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Last Updates

2022

Coggeshall Farm Museum FAQ’s

Picnic tables available for use.

Museum Shop available.

Coggeshall Farm Museum offers special tours for School, Youth, and Adult tour groups with prior reservation. Please email us at [email protected] or call us at 401.253.9062 for more information or to schedule a group tour.

Our grounds and buildings are like those of 18th century Rhode Island, and may be rougher than expected for those of limited mobility.

Please note no cards accepted for payment.

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