After yesterdays great weather and Trails & Sails event at Harold Parker State Forest, we had more great weather so decided to go to Saugus Iron Works. Again, we discovered a “Trails & Sails” event which meant that the visit was much more informative than normal!
We were taken on a tour outside the museum location, to where it is believed that the original 1600s dam & water ways were constructed. Later, we had the normal tour of the museum – a “living museum” with working mock-up of the water wheels which once powered the hammers & other machinery used to make iron products in the mid to late 1600s; there was also a nail making demonstration; you can buy real hand made nails in the gift shop (but sadly not actually made on site).
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