Now On Display

Meadowbrook Museum Collections

The Poole Collection — curated by museum founders Fran and Don Poole — includes antiques and artifacts donated by and and on loan from community residents and meticulously catalogued and displayed in the museum’s exhibit rooms.

These images are a small representative sample of our collection. Visit the museum to see all items on display, or contact us about accessing available files.

One of two main exhibit rooms at the Meadowbrook Museum. Two other rooms display antique toys and antique farm equipment.

Wool coverlet used during the Civil War and handed down through the Ludlow Sisson family

Singer sewing machine, circa 1892

Antique desk and slate typical of those used in the days when writing tablets were not readily available. Also shown is a lunchbox used at Alleghany Springs School the 1940s.

Meadowbrook Museum Collections

Now on Display

One of two main exhibit rooms at the Meadowbrook Museum. Two other rooms display antique toys and antique farm equipment.

Wool coverlet used during the Civil War and handed down through the Ludlow Sisson family

Singer sewing machine, circa 1892

Antique desk and slate typical of those used in the days when writing tablets were not readily available. Also shown is a lunchbox used at Alleghany Springs School the 1940s.

Doll and high chair from 1942, on loan from Dorothy Lentz

Antique banjo handcrafted around 1840, from the Eva Frances Craighead Evans family

Barrel-styled safe used in the original Bank of Shawsville, circa 1910

Hand-cranked adding machine from the Wimmer Store on Alleghany Spring Road