Dartmouth - Quaker House

The Quaker House in Dartmouth, built (c 1785) as a merchants' home, features period furnishings and a hand decorated entrance way plus construction phase interpretation panels in each room. The House is associated with the Nantucket Quaker Whalers who operated a whaling business in Dartmouth for a period of years. Herb gardens are located to the rear.

Also of interest was the discovery of 4 separate shoes within its walls, a long reaching folk superstition. It was believed that if you embedded one shoe from a pair within the walls, the devil would be always looking for the other shoe and never find you!