Early Day Wood Beam Walking Hand Plow

This plow was donated to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. Nelson, of Hurricane,

Utah.

History of the plow is from Mr. Nelson’s grandmother, Hulda Ellertson Kay, who was housekeeper for Apostle Hyde during the period of 1875.

The Nelson family ...

Belfast Historian's Home

The Williamson House was built in 1845 for prominent Belfast lawyer, businessman, and State Senator Joseph Williamson. It was later the house of his son, Joseph Williamson, Jr., who followed in his father's footsteps as a country lawyer. Joseph Williamson, ...

A Benevolent Bequest

The Construction of a public library was made possible in 1888 by a bequest of $20,000 from merchant Paul R. Hazeltine. He directed that a handsome, substantial, fireproof building be erected on a suitable spot. Built of red granite and ...

Van Buren County / Van Buren County Courthouse

Van Buren County

Settlers attracted by lumbering came to this area in the 1830s. By the 1860s a mild climate, rich soil and easy access to the Chicago markets created a thriving fruit industry in Van Buren County. The county was ...

Belmont Mine Fire Mural

Dedicated November 19, 2005

The mural you are viewing was painted by noted mural

artist, Lee Bowerman of Grand Junction, Colorado and

is dedicated to Nevada Mine Safety in remembrance of

the Belmont Mine Fire of February 23, 1911 and the ...

John Campbell Memorial Home

John Campbell (1818-1891), founder of Ironton, was an ironmaster and president of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company, a Presbyterian, and an abolitionist. This house and barn, which he built in 1850, became a stop on the Underground Railroad for ...

The Town Named After a Buggy Incident

Buggies, such as the one before you, were an important part of early America. As the name implies, Doctors' Buggies were used by physicians but they were also a popular choice for many others as well. Buggies were dearly prized ...

The Hanging Rock Iron Region / The Blast Furnaces of Lawrence Co

The Hanging Rock Iron Region

To furnish the needs of the early settlers, then to furnish ordnance for a nation at war, and finally to furnish merchant iron to the steel mills, 100 iron producing blast furnaces were built within these ...

Many Came by Handcart

Between June 9, 1856, and July 6, 1860, ten separate Handcart Companies left Iowa

City, Iowa, or Florence, Nebraska to their land of Zion in the Utah Territory. There were

653 handcarts and 50 wagons.

Nearly 3,000 souls, some with babes in arms, ...

Historic Kolob Mountain

Kolob

by Owen Sanders

When lassitude tugs at your body

and robs you of zest to exist

come with me to Kolob

and walk through the mild morning mist

Huddle at dawn on a hillside

and scan the green valley below;

Listen to snapping and crackle of twigs

and ...