Last year the Museum received a grant from MassHumanities to produce a short film about one of the most remarkable tools in our collection. In 1928, a man named Reuben Sibley donated a shipbuilder's axe to the growing collection of artifacts displayed on board Constitution. According to the family story, Reuben's great grandfather Jacob Sibley had used this axe in the 1790s to shape timber for the ship. This puts it among only two tools know to exist that were used to create the frigate. Read the full story on Log Lines!
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