COLLECTION HIGHLIGHT
Grain Chest
Grain Chest c.1650 – 1720
Gift of the Clapp Family, 1922
Oak, pine
Dims: H 23 ¾” x W 60” x D 26”
Curriculum Connections
This Scituate Historical Society Collections Highlight connects with the following Massachusetts State Curriculum Frameworks:
History and Social Science Framework
1.T4, 2.T5 Economics: resources and choices
Explain the relationship between natural resources and industries and jobs in a particular location (e.g., fishing, shipbuilding, farming, trading, mining, lumbering, manufacturing).
3.T1 Massachusetts Cities and Towns Today and in History
Research the demographic origins of the town or city (e.g., the Native People who originally lived there or still live there, the people who established it as a colonial town, its founding date, and the free, indentured, and enslaved women and men who contributed to the wellbeing of the town).