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The Ferndale Museum has many fine collections in our accessions.
We have over 4000 photographs of people, industries such as blacksmith, firemen, dairy, farms, coopers. We have many fine victorian houses, hotels, and stores. Boats, horsedrawn implements, floods, earthquakes, parades, Main Street, etc.
We have a complete blacksmith shop that is operational. Periodically, we have a demonstration in the blacksmith shop given by a local smithy.
We have farm, logging, and dairy equipment on display in our annex along with a nice array of machinist tools and old belt driven machines. Humboldt County is where the machine to cut and wrap sticks of butter was invented. We also invented and perfected the making of powdered milk.
We have a complete old barbershop with pole.
Also on permanent display is a bank of the last cord board from Pacific Telephone's toll board. This is one 3 position section from the original 33 section board operated from 1952 to 1983. Before the cord board was implemented we had switchboards. The Museum displays the Magneto Switchboard that was last used in 1959. in the main building for you to look at.
All of these items are on permanent display. We also have collections varying from a miniature shoe collection to items gathered by one of our local residents during many trips to Africa. These collections are displayed periodically.
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