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Our Machine ShopStarting in April of 2000, volunteers from the Chesapeake Area Metalworking Society (CAMS) joined in a cooperative effort with the Tuckahoe Steam and Gas Association (TSGA) to restore a collection of machine tools housed in Tuckahoe's Rural Life Museum. Many are originally from machine shops, factories and boatyards from the Baltimore area and the eastern shore of Maryland. Our mission is to reproduce a working early 20th-century lineshaft-driven machine shop, and to provide machining services for the restoration of Tuckahoe's other collections of antique steam and internal combustion engines and tractors. Currently located in a corner of the Rural Life Museum (as shown below) and several trailers, a large new building dedicated to the machine shop is scheduled for groundbreaking in early 2007. These photos will be updated, and the rest of the collection added, after the machinery is moved to its new home.
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