Janney Furnace Museum

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The museum is a bit of a catch-all. it has Civil War stuff and Native American stuff as well as books and maybe there were colonial things as well? i can’t remember.

these were buttons from uniforms. i think it was a mishmash of Confederate and Union buttons.

 

money! seeing the money reminded me of how easy it was to make counterfeit money back then. it was a HUGE problem. there was a great book i read last year, or maybe the year before called Stealing Lincoln’s Body. it was about a conspiracy to steal the president’s body in exchange for this guy who was in prison. the prisoner was this big counterfeiter guy. they wanted him out to help them make money. So the book went into a great detail about counterfeiting at the time and about how the secret service was put in charge of busting it up. also, i think it mentioned a good bit about the Pinkerton detectives. (i could be thinking of a different book.)

ANYway i was wondering if the money in the display was real or maybe some of it was old fake bills. considering almost half of the currency at that time was fake? probably a good bet.

they had other weapons: rifles, pistols, um, bugles. several musical instruments, in fact.

it was a pretty cool place. the museum is quite new, so cut them a break for being a bit small. i think it’s open weekdays from 10am – 5pm.

 

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