Rt 1 Box 191 Pleasant Valley Road
Woodland, GA, 31836
706-674-2894
overview : Old South Farm Museum and Ag Learning Center with acres of historic treasures. Local historian Paul Bulloch has filled several buildings on Ga. 41 just north of Woodland with an assortment of tools, equipment, and household goods tracing Southern rural life from the 1800s to the 1960s. You'll spot treasures that were another generation's discards. In addition to farming and gardening workshops, the museum hosts an annual Old Farm Days Festival on the third weekend in June. This museum provides a wonderful opportunity for school groups to experience the lifestyle of Americans during the 1800's and early 1900's before electricity was common.
collections : Many items on display are central to the early 20th century back to a time when life was rugged and people made do with what they had, or did without. In many cases, the created their own tools which led to many inventions we take for granted today. We exhibit everything from woodburning stoves to steam tractors. With acres of buildings and displays, you can spend a couple of hours looking at items that were common just decades ago. Before electricity, clothes had to be washed by hand, here you can pump water and see the type of equipment women used to wash clothes as well as see a working smokehouse, grind grain, spin cotton and perhaps make sausage.
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