Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle
August 19th 2012 The following is a description of the Mercer Museum in Doyletown, PA from their website.
By 1897 handmade objects were being discarded in favor of new machine-made goods. Historian and archaeologist Henry Mercer (1856-1930) recognized the need to collect and preserve the outmoded material of daily life in America before it was swept away by the Industrial Revolution. Mercer gathered almost
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