The Davistown Museum is a regional tool, art, and history museum with two physical locations in Maine and an extensive website. The Museum and the website provide detailed information on the history of ferrous metallurgy, edge tool manufacturing, the Wooden Age of maritime New England, and the Classic period of American toolmaking that accompanied the advent of the Industrial Revolution. The Museum has also compiled a publication on the Native Americans of the central Maine coast.
The main Museum complex, including exhibitions, galleries, libraries, and the visitors’ center, is located in Liberty Village, while the office and sculpture gardens are in Hulls Cove (Bar Harbor).
Selected Davistown Museum images:
Wantage Rule fitted into a box, 1720
Broad axe, Alna, ca. 1800
Rabbet plane, ca. 1789
Cleaver, ca. 1865
Gutter adze, ca. 1650
Primitive iron hammer
Bed wrench, ca. 1820
Butteris, ca. 1820
Cobbler's hammer, ca. 1850