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Many outstanding collections have been donated to the Ferndale Museum, including the equipment for a complete, operational blacksmith shop. Occasionally, local or visiting smithies open up the shop and spend an afternoon working – and giving live demonstrations of their art.
Our Annex displays farm, logging, and dairy equipment, as well as machine tools and belt-driven machines.
In the central rooms of the Museum, we have permanent displays of a turn-of-the-century barber shop, and a bank of the last cord board from Pacific Telephone’s toll board, a three-position section from the original thirty-three-position sections that operated in Ferndale from 1952-1983. The Magneto switchboard that preceded the toll board is also on permanent display – and the “crank phones” in two locations are one of the most popular relics with children “of all ages.”
The photography collection of the Museum exceeds 6,000 pieces and is growing daily.
(Jerry Lema and Rob Roberts with
the Bosch-Omori seismograph)
(Primo and Irene Marca, Centennial Cake, 1952)
Covering more than 140 years of our history, the photos – from glass plates to jpgs – include people and agricultural animals and equipment, Victorian houses (exteriors and interiors), Main Street over the decades, natural disasters (floods and earthquakes), individuals, families, members of the Armed Services, country schoolhouses and their students, high school sports and other events, parades, celebrations, fires, over 100 years of the Humboldt County Fair (held in Ferndale), churches and church programs, fraternal organizations, youth groups…all told, a 158-year-old town, very well documented!
Every morning the Bosch-Omori seismograph, housed at the Ferndale Museum, is checked for earthquake recordings and reset. Jerry Lema and Rob Roberts maintain the seismograph, but are always willing to train back-up volunteers. If you are interested in learning more about the seismograph, please contact Rob.
(Three men logging, circa 1900)
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Ferndale Museum
Tours and school groups welcome!
Corner of Shaw and Third Streets: 515 Shaw
Hours
Wed. - Sat.
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Sun.
1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
plus Tues.
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.,
June 1- Sept. 30
We welcome
your visit
February
through
December.
(We close the month of January
for maintenance and restoration.)
707-786-4466
Post Office Box 431
Ferndale, California
95536-0431 USA
FerndaleMuseum@gmail.com