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The Dominy Woodworking Shop, at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, is reconstructed from architectural drawings of the original shop, which stood as part of the Dominy house in East Hampton, Long Island, from about 1715 until 1946. Displayed here, and in the adjoining clockmaker's shop, are more than 800 tools used by three generations of the Dominy family, as they plied their trades of cabinetmaking and clockmaking, built windmills, made guns, surveyed roads, and took part in the civic life of their community. The earliest dated tool in the group is a plane stamped 1765 and used by Nathaniel Dominy IV (1737-1812). In the center of the room, beyond the great wheel lathe, stands a tea table which was made by Nathaniel Dominy V (1770-1852) for his wife.