You are standing in front of an artifact case. This side of the case includes three groups of artifacts with labels titled “Tobacco Pipes,” “Agricultural Tools,” and “Coins.” To your left is a reader rail titled “Window on the Past: Agricultural Boom.” To your right is a fireplace, with two portraits hanging above the mantelpiece. Behind you is another artifact case.

The labels in the case in front of you read:

Tobacco Pipes
The tobacco trade went through periods of boom and bust. As tobacco prices declined in the 1800s, some plantation owners, including the Sellmans, transitioned to other cash crops, including wheat.

Recovered from Java:
10. German or Dutch pipe stem marked “Peter Dorne,” ca. late 1800s
11. Dutch pipe fragments marked “J&G Prince, In Gouda,” ca. 1700s to 1850

Agricultural Tools
Enslaved people cultivated and harvested crops with hoes, scythes, and other hand tools. They kept their tools sharp using honing stones, which could be easily carried in the pocket and fit comfortably in the hand.

Recovered from Java:
12. Horse buckle, ca. late 1700s
13. Horse spur

Recovered from Woodlawn’s summer kitchen:
14. Handwrought iron band from the hub of a wheel used on a light wagon or carriage, ca. 1800 to 1850

Recovered from Woodlawn:
15. Iron tooth from a harrow, ca. 1700s to 1800s
This artifact is accompanied by a drawing of a harrow, a piece of equipment used to break up soil clods and smooth the soil after plowing.
16 and 17. Scythe-sharpening stones, ca. 1776 to 1865

Coins
The United States began minting its own coins in the 1790s. Unlike paper money, gold and silver coins were intrinsically valuable, and could be melted down.

Recovered from Woodlawn:
8. Liberty Head large cent, 1838
9. Indian Head cent, 1864