| Photo Tour - The Wiggins House |
| Creature comforts in 1800's were few and sometimes non-existant. Notice the chamber pot, washstand with pitcher and the fireplace coal bed warmer. Bed mattress was stuffed with feathers. |
| The Wiggins House is a one-roon structure with a fireplace for heating. The building originally had a detached kitchen. There was no inside plumbing or electricity. Water for drinking and cooking was brought in from a spring, or gathered by rain barrels set beneath the eaves of the house. The house and surrounding yard was enclosed by a picket fence to keep animals from the flower beds and from entering the house. James William Wiggins and his wife Louise Casey Wiggins built the house in the mid 1800's on land that is now part of the Cliffs of the Neuse State Park. |