Crane Museum

With its rough-hewn oak beams, colonial chandeliers,  many-paned windows and wide oak floorboards, the interior resembles the Old Ship  Church in Hingham, Mass. In this appropriate setting, you will find a scale  model (made by Dard Hunter) of the vat house of the first Crane mill, as well as  some of the hand molds that Zenas Crane used from 1801 to 1831. In wall and  floor cases, exhibits trace the history of American papermaking from  Revolutionary times, with special emphasis on the durable, distinctive Crane  papers made for currency, bonds, stock certificates and elegant stationery.