Extensive display of toy equipment on loan from Carole Fourman.
Check out AWTHS new displays during Open Hours. The theme is centered around Agriculture which includes: Farming, Ag businesses, community ag businesses, and the village of Pitsburg with items from Monroe, Franklin, and FM School.
The displays, many on loan, will be on display through the summer. Most likely until July. Watch our FB post for details.
The kids and “big boys” will enjoy the toy farm equipment on loan from Carole Fourman. Mr. and Mrs. Hency are one of the featured implement dealers famous for John Deere equipment. Other items include artifacts from the VC Farm Center.
Other cases include items from Angela blocher-Hart on loan about the county’s first grain combine and Carolyn Horner with her showmanship cattle awards. sale bills, and a Continental Grain rain gauge.
Zane Baker donated some Franklin School items including a cheerleader vest worn by his father. along with some other school items for Monroe School from his mother,
We’ve added Monroe and FM items by family of Annette Stewart (Sease) and Lori Feitshans Schneider. David Kepler loaned his dad’s letters for Monroe and some Pitsburg items from Eller’s Market and Riesley’s Market.
The Scammerhorn’s loaned some items from the elevator where it was called S & L Farm Service owned by Ezra Lavy and Carl Scammerhorn. They brought in a large picture of the business and some other artifacts. Prior to S & L it was Hocker & Lavy. Other names include Franklin Grain, Rogers and now currently Scoular.
We have some exciting farm and ag related stories to share on our web site as well as additional photos on our Facebook page. Tobacco farming by the Sease family, Almost Century Farm by the Stewart’s are two farm stories we have so far. If you would like to share your farm story, or about your ag business, please contact Annette Stewart at [email protected]. We would like to hear from livestock farming as well as grain farmers and other type ag businesses such as landscaping, fruit farms and produce.
We would like to hear from those who have baled hay or straw and your experiences as well as working on a farm. How has agriculture changed for you over the years? What is a “typical” day on the farm like? What skills did you learn? What are some of the challenges for farmers today? Many kids detasselled in the 1970-1990’s perhaps even earlier times.
AWTHS is looking to update the ag sector with information and photos about the farms in the community and their families. As well as the ag businesses. This includes not only Arcanum but Pitsburg, Gordon, Ithaca and Castine and the surrounding townships.
The Arcanum Business book by Anita Short is a great book with history from the earliest beginnings up through 1968. We are looking for businesses from 1969 to present. If you have information, stories or photos please contact AWTHS. Or if you would like to research this subject, again please contact Annette Stewart at AWTHS. A big help would be a simple list going business to business down the street listing what businesses were there and approximate years since 1969. Old photos is a bonus. We have a great number of photos but sadly some old businesses are missing and some were never photographed. So if you like to take photos and can keep them organized by street and numbers, here’s a project waiting for you.
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