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All are presented to provide an authentic insight into the life and times of pioneer Lakewood. There is a large kitchen with a fireplace for cooking and a four-harness loom, a furnished parlor with horsehair sofa, a sick or borning room with old-fashioned care equipment, and two upstairs bedrooms featuring roped beds, handmade quilts, coverlets and homespun sheets. The museum also includes samplers and folk art.
On display is a bust of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland, naturalist, botanist, doctor, legislator, teacher, writer, and most celebrated citizen of Lakewood during the 19th century.
He is credited with originating 26 varieties of cherries and six of pears, and held the distinction of giving his name to a warbler, water snake, mollusk, rasberry, strawberry and fossil plant.
Behind the house, within a split-rail fence, is an herb garden, a source for scents, dyes and flavoring used in pioneer cooking. Tombstones from the old Wagar cemetery are on display in one area of the garden.