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| The original Methodist Church,
where the bell rang for 60 years. |
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| Many of the buildings located in
Homesteader Village are from abandoned homestead era towns. They have been
moved onto the site, accurately restored, and furnished. Buildings
along the street include a small country church, a bank, a drug store,
City Hall, a one room School, a Mercantile and three generations of
prairie settlers' dwellings. |
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| A typical bedroom in a
prosperous homesteader's house. |
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| A typical early gas station. |
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| We loved looking at all the old
grocery products and noting how so many of the packages still look
basically the same such as Arm & Hammer baking soda, saran wrap, C
& H sugar, shredded wheat, Calumet baking powder, Woolite, Quaker Oats
and Morton
salt. Amazing. |
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| Of course, every general store
had to have a checkerboard and a place for the old men to spit and chew. |
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| Anyone, besides me, remember
when the telephone operators manned these? Jerry still remembers
that his home phone number was "144-W" and his dad's appliance
and furniture store was "359". And remember how we all had
party lines? |
