47 Revisited) Saugus Iron Works

Visited: Saturday, September 24th, 2016

We likely visited our final NPS site for the year with a return trip to the Saugus Iron Works.  This time, we did the iron works house tour.  Which - is historically odd, in that it post-dates the iron works (though it is from roughly the same era; it was built ~20 years after the iron works closed), and was remodeled to fit Wallace Nutting's view of what it _should_ look like.  Not what it _did_ look like - though Nutting did make changes which brought the house closer to it's historic roots, he also added features to make it a better fit for how he felt it should look.  Which, in retrospect, have little to do with the scant evidence that exists of how it did look.

But the tour was yet another reminder of the advantage of signing up for ranger talks at every opportunity...