Another Visit to Columbia State Historic Park

Not all the buildings here are restored and maintained. This one, on main street ust beyond the proper historic district, shows what some of the buildings must have looked like before becoming an historic park.

This suggest to me that either these wooden buildings were really well built or there was a lot of work done to get them to like this. If a brick structure has trouble, the wooden ones must need a lot of TLC.

This sign below kind of made me cuckle. So many kids must think that there is considerable overlap among the three locations indicated.

As an indication of the restoration done in these buildings. In one of the stores this light fixture looks much like I reckon the original to look. Except for the electric light instead of oil, this seems to be the real McCoy.

Of course, some concessions to the modern world are made. This young woman is learning the blacksmith trade in here. I'm pretty sure she would not have been working here in 1850.