Herbs: Historical herb gardens from late 1800's?, 1 by JeaneTH

JeaneTH wrote:
I would love some opinions on what herb varieties would have been grown in midwestern (great lakes area) gardens in the period around 1880 or so. I belong to the local herb guild that mainains a garden at the local county museum - a house built in 1875. The grounds also have other period buildings - a general store, log cabin, barn, etc. The garden we have is small, 3 rectangular sections surounded by a cement block path, out from the kitchen door. The plants in it now have historically been grown all the way back to colonial times. But I'm interested in the particular period around 1880 and haven't found what I guess I'm looking for online. I've looked up Victorian herb gardens and Colonial Revival, which some seem to have been doing, but haven't found much in the way of actual plant lists other than for the Surratt House Herb Garden in southern Maryland. I'm interested more in what was grown in the upper Midwest and Great Lakes states.

As you can see the garden needs some revival. We're planning on digging a section at a time and renewing the soil with compost. As we do this I would like to include some period plants. We also seem to have a problem with more shade now than the garden originally had.
Would love some input.
Jeane