ROANOKE AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 2ND GRADERS GO TO THE FARM
(October 17, 2014 - Hallockville Museum Farm) As part of their social studies curriculum, the second graders from the Roanoke Avenue Elementary School went to the the Hallockville Museum Farm to learn about rural communities and the early lives of the people who settled Long Island. The students toured a home built by a Polish immigrant family, learned about early farm equipment, made molasses cookies in an original wood burning stove, fed farm animals, washed clothes with a washboard and an old-fashioned wringer. The students delighted in using two-legged clothes pins to hang their small pieces of wet cloth on a clothesline to dry . They learned that this type of clothes pin was actually invented by sailors.
On their website, the Hallockville Museum Farm describes their school programs as an opportunity to "re-connect the community with our shared agricultural heritage."
The website notes, "Hallockville Museum Farm is a unique educational resource-- it is the only place in Suffolk County where you will find history combined with a working farmstead. Our 28 acre campus has 18 historic buildings spanning 250 years on the North Fork of Eastern Long Island. Animals, gardens, and farmland are all important elements of our working landscape. In addition, Hallockville is part of over 500 acres of preserved land that stretches to Long Island Sound and is a great venue to have school programs. . . . |
The Hallocks were one of the 'first families' of the North Fork and were part of the Puritan exodus from England in the early-17th century. The museum farm gains its name from the Puritan tradition of carving out a piece of the family farm for male heirs of marrying age. The land on which the museum farm sits came into the Hallock family in the late 18-th century. The Hallock Homestead includes the Homestead House, Barn, and outbuildings. There is a large collection of agricultural and household artifacts that show how farming was done over the last 250 years." (Education pdf)
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