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The Hyland House Museum

Our mission is to share Guilford's rich colonial history and to inspire ongoing stewardship of that legacy.

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  • At Home Activities
    • Make your own Leather Wallet
    • Make your own Silhouette Portrait
    • Bind Your Own Notebook
    • Martha Washington’s Great Cake
    • Sew a Historical “Huswife”
    • Herb Memory Card Game
    • Nine Men Morris Game
    • Make your own Button Whirligig
    • Weaving a Coaster
    • Making an Aluminum Lantern
    • The Flying Circle – Make your Own Game of Graces
    • Making and Using a Tape Loom
    • Build a Lucet Tool and Braid Cords
  • Events
    • Paint The House Red
    • Architectural Walking Tour
    • Crafts in the Garden
    • Picture Gallery of Previous Events
  • Learn Our Story
    • Museum Collection – Objects of Interest
      • Silhouette
      • The “Huswife” – a colonial travel sewing kit
      • Custom Curtains with a History
      • Fire Bucket
      • 18th Century Stays
      • Tape Loom
    • Diptheria Epidemic in 1736 
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    • Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society
    • A Witness Stone for Candace
    • Genealogy of Hyland House Residents
    • Architectural History
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Museum Collection – Objects of Interest

The curator and the docents have provided our interested readers with historic information on selected items from the Hyland House collection.

Silhouette by Auguste Edouart

The “Housewife” – colonial sewing

Custom Curtains with a History

Fire Bucket

18th Century Stays

Tape Loom

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