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Museums & Organizations

	Canadian Museum of Making is a private museum of machine tools and related metalworking artifacts.
	Chesapeake Area Metalworking Society
	Baltimore Museum of Industry
	Rick Rowlands is restoring a 1914 5000-hp Tod horizontal steam engine, in Youngstown, OH. Its a monumental project. Visit at Todengine.org. To support the engine restoration Rick runs a small foundry, as well as collecting antique machine tools.
	Eastern Shore Threshermen
	Potomac Antique Tools and Industries Association (PATINA)
For information on older machine tools, Tony Griffith's machine tool website (lathes.co.uk) is a goldmine. Despite the name, there is info on other types of machine tools as well.

	Talbot County Information
	Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
	Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
	Tuckahoe State Park
	Adkins Arboretum is a 400-acre native garden and preserve on Maryland’s Eastern Shore dedicated to promoting the appreciation and conservation of the region’s native plants. Four miles of paths along streams, through meadows and native plant gardens and under the shade of a rich bottomland forest attract nature lovers, gardeners, students and birders.
	Old Wye Mill The Wye Grist Mill is located on a ¾ acre plot of land in the Town of Wye Mills, on the border of Queen Anne's and Talbot Counties, Eastern Shore Maryland. The mill and museum is a rectangular, one-story 30' by 40' timber structure with a full basement and attic filled with milling artifacts and museum exhibits. A timber frame structure was originally constructed on this site circa 1682, with multiple additions and renovations over the last 325 years. Discover the long and colorful past of this National Register Historic Landmark. Watch the waterwheel turn the heavy stones to grind the grain as millers explain the milling process. Explore exhibits that feature over 325 years of grinding technology