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When you visit this complex of 10 historic buildings filled with artifacts from our past, you will be able to get a feel for how early citizens would have lived and worked.
Several of the buildings were once the center of a working
family farm. That farm's land has now become criss-crossed by city streets, its fields of corn and grain now host to houses, yards, driveways and swingsets.
But, the heart, the nerve center, of that farm has been retained: the Victorian Italiante farmhouse, the classic barn, the grain storage building they called a "granary." The pasture where the dairy herd once grazed after they waded in the small creek, is still there (altered to a recreational walking trail system). The creek even retains its picturespue historic name, the Paperjack, so called because a man who sold rags and was called "Paper Jack" once lived on its banks.
Added to the farmstead buildings have been others, a store,
log cabin, church, country schoolhouse, log barn, and a working man's home. You can show children a picture and say, "This is how it was," or you can watch the delight in their eyes as they experience, first hand, a real country school or general store.
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