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Haney House Kitchen
This is the most altered room in the house. Because the Hawley family lived here until 1979, new technologies were continually brought in here, more than anywhere else in the house. What still exists has largely been donated, and represents a mixture of a century of kitchen technology. There are some butter churns on display, as well as a butter mold made of wood with an oak leaf design. This mold belonged to Anne Haney and was for the butter to cool in after it was churned.
The stove is the earliest model put out by general electric, circa 1927. The stove has both the temperatures and 'hot/warm/' etc. on it to accompany the degrees. This is because when people were first converting from a wood-burning stove to a gas stove, they did not know the degrees, but they did know what a 'hot' stove was. The irons on display show phases in technology; there is a sad iron and an early electric iron.
Regarding the room itself, wooden channels containing wires cross over the ceiling, which shows that electricity was added after the house was built. In fact, it was not added until 1922, more than fifty years after the original construction. Another interesting thing to have a look at here are the bullet holes in the ceiling from when Daniel Haney's gun fired while he was cleaning it.