Hanford Mills Museum

Cost: $55/members, $70/non-members This workshop is limited to eight participants and is intended for ages 15 and up. Participants will hone their baking and wood-stove cooking skills and develop their “biscuit hands” while preparing a mouth-watering assortment of quick breads. This hands-on workshop uses ingredients and techniques common in the early 20th century, recipes from cookbooks in use in the 1920s,

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The spotlight of this event will be on the importance of trees and forests. See how logs are processed into finished products using the mill’s water powered machinery. A variety of exhibitors will be providing demonstrations and wood-themed local products for sale. Helen’s Little Kitchen will be on site all day, as well. Admission will be by donation rather than our usual rates. Check back on this page for details and updates.

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Cost: $100/members; $125/non-members Description of Course: Students will have a chance to forge their own door latch based on period examples. This course will cover not only the steps to forge a functioning piece of door hardware, but will also discuss historic design and utility, regional blacksmithing traditions, and traditional hardware installation. It is recommended that students taking this course have some prior blacksmithing experience. Stude

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Cost: $55/members, $70/non-members Children ages 7 and above, accompanied by an adult participant, will prepare a farmhouse lunch on the Hanford House kitchen’s Royal Bride cookstove in this hands-on workshop. When all is ready they will enjoy the meal they have prepared in the house’s dining room. The menu, drawn from recipes in cookbooks written for young people in the early 1900s, will include tomato soup, cheese dreams (grilled cheese s

Source: hanfordmills.org · Last verified Aug 19, 2026