Pioneer Town, with its livery, saloon, schoolhouse, real pioneer cabin and other buildings, takes you back in time to the frontier. Each building contains numerous artifacts from the history collection used during the 1890s.
The History Collection is the museum's largest. Artifacts include a variety of items related to everyday life used at home and at work from the late 1800s through the 20th century: kerosene and electric lights; kitchen tools, equipment, and appliances; personal items (like razors, shaving mugs, combs); recreational items (such as games, radios, televisions); office-related objects and equipment (typewriters, adding machine, Dictaphones, pens, inkwells); telephones musical instruments, medical instruments and equipment, signage, etc.
Also under the history umbrella, the Western Heritage Collection includes objects related to ranching: saddles, bits, spurs, tack, chuck boxes, branding irons, barbed wire, fencing tools, and other items. The Agricultural Collection includes tools and equipment used in farming during the late 1800s and through the 1920s: tractors, planters, plows, cultivators, harvesters, etc. |
