We snatched our grandson up and hit the road west out of Oklahoma City for a visit to the Hinton Historical Museum and Parker House. It is located at 801 S. Broadway in Hinton, which for some reason, my GPS could not find. So I located it the old fashion way, I stopped and asked for directions. The museum has an old farm house (that we had to pass up, as one in our party had enough visiting) a 25,000 square foot two story barn filled with lots of state and local history showing how people lived from the late 1800's forward. They have Oklahoma's largest buggy and barbed wire collections.
This is a fire extinguisher, I guess one of the first on wheels.
This is the first "station wagon" or so we were told. We had a private tour given by Art Peters. He has a great slide show and really explains the canyon system running east to west and how it was used in the 1800's. The original wagon tracks are still visible in a few of the canyons.
This is a copy of "rules of conduct" for riding the stage coach. I hope you can read them, pretty interesting.
A lot of small towns in Oklahoma have similar paintings on some of their buildings, and we think they look really neat.
We snatched our grandson up and hit the road west out of Oklahoma City for a visit to the Hinton Historical Museum and Parker House. It is located at 801 S. Broadway in Hinton, which for some reason, my GPS could not find. So I located it the old fashion way, I stopped and asked for directions. The museum has an old farm house (that we had to pass up, as one in our party had enough visiting) a 25,000 square foot two story barn filled with lots of state and local history showing how people lived from the late 1800's forward. They have Oklahoma's largest buggy and barbed wire collections.
This is a fire extinguisher, I guess one of the first on wheels.
This is the first "station wagon" or so we were told. We had a private tour given by Art Peters. He has a great slide show and really explains the canyon system running east to west and how it was used in the 1800's. The original wagon tracks are still visible in a few of the canyons.
This is a copy of "rules of conduct" for riding the stage coach. I hope you can read them, pretty interesting.
A lot of small towns in Oklahoma have similar paintings on some of their buildings, and we think they look really neat.
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