Carpenter Museum

The Carpenter Museum is a local history museum housed in a building modeled after a 1760 gambrel-roofed house with multiple exhibit rooms and storage areas. Inside you will find over 4,000 objects from the region, including maps, artwork, and historic household items.

The museum was founded in 1976 and opened in 1978 to house the Rehoboth Antiquarian Society collection, made possible through donations from Elsie and E. Winsor Carpenter. This generous gift allowed the community to gather and display regional objects in a dedicated space.

The kitchen display from the 1700s shows how people cooked and ate in this region long ago, with a working hearth that demonstrates daily practices. Walking through these rooms helps you picture how families lived in the area centuries ago.

The E. Otis Dyer Jr. Research Center offers visitors resources for tracing family history, including cemetery maps and historic house information. The research library helps you explore connections your family may have had to this region.

An additional exhibition barn was built in 1993 using local wood and displays artifacts from farming, textiles, manufacturing, and military history. This collection tells the story of different parts of life that shaped the region across its centuries.

Location: Rehoboth

Inception: 1976

Website: http://carpentermuseum.org

GPS coordinates: 41.84013,-71.25196

Latest update: December 14, 2025 18:48