Garden hoe
notes: label: Description
content: This object is a gardening hoe, or “half-a-hoe” because of its broken blade. It has a wooden handle that is attached to a metal hoe blade with a nut and bolt and is set at a 90-degree angle to the handle. The blade was broken and re-sharpened, so it is much smaller than its original size. This object was donated by Frank Robinson, whose family owned and operated tobacco farms in Maryland. According to Robinson, this hoe was originally used by his grandmother, Elizabeth B. Robinson (1892-1976) at the family’s Ferndale Farm in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and at their other farm, Serenity Farm, in Charles County, Maryland, when she moved there in 1975. Frank used the hoe up until the time of donation in 2000. Both Frank and his grandmother found the broken blade easier to use to weed flower and vegetable beds rather than repairing it entirely or buying a new hoe.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Location of Ferndale Farm, where this tool was used by the donor's grandmother
content: United States: Maryland, Prince Georges
label: Location of Serenity Farm, where the donor's grandmother and the donor used this tool
content: United States: Maryland, Charles
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Franklin A. Robinson Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.0009.18
label: accession number
content: 2000.0009
label: catalog number
content: 2000.0009.18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Garden Hoe
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 105.4 cm x 11 cm x 9.9 cm x 2.3 cm; 41 1/2 in x 4 5/16 in x 3 7/8 in x 7/8 in