Enfield Cooperage

The Enfield Shaker community produced cooperage (buckets, tubs, etc) for sale outside the community for most of it's history. This video will look at features of cooperage produced by the Enfield Shakers with a focus on the production of the North Family in the late 19th Century.
Originally presented at the Enfield Shaker Museum on February 23, 2021 as part two of a five-part series which investigates Enfield Shaker material culture and highlights items from the museum's collection.
This video includes:
0:00 Introduction and an overview of historic cooperage, definition of some terms.
6:00 A few historic photos.
7:00 Cooperage at Enfield's Second Family.
8:00 Cooperage at Enfield's Church Family with some quotes tracing the development of equipment used in the trade over time.
11:00 Cooperage industry at Enfield's North Family. Describes an economic calamity that spurred the development of the cooperage trade and the expansion of production in the second half of the 19th Century.
16:15 The Winchendon lathe. The North Family invested in the best machinery available. A few artifacts from our collection that are remnants of that machinery.
17:55 A look at some examples of Enfield cooperage.
18:10 Maggie the poodle supervising filming.
18:15 Some Canterbury buckets.
20:30 Overview of some North Family cooperage, features common on many examples of North Family buckets.
22:09 North Family handled buckets.
25:22 A variety of North Family sap buckets.
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