Saturday, February 23, 2019

Pioneer Village Part II

Pioneer Village continues;
Archives building
building was used to sell War Bonds in downtown Corsicana

Outhouse

Tack Shed
1874
Used as a smokehouse and tack shed


Sam Roberts Museum

Yankee Civil War Saber


Bank Safe


barbwire collection




Corsicana was the first location oil was discovered in Texas
1894







Carriage House






1930 Farmall Tractor

Late 19th Century
Sayers & Scoville Hearse

Pancho Villa Surrey
Turn of the century Surrey




Early Jail

Two Cell's

Ought ohhhhhhh

4 beds per cell they fold up for moving around in the daytime!!

Playhouse






nursery rhyme floor covering

Redden House
1860










Pie Safe or Saver



parlor

Dining

Kitchen






Bedroom



door in bedroom
for venting


Shotgun house
1920
no hallway


Lefty Frizzell Museum




Photo of Tuckertown
3 months old
boomtown 1902
 oil was discovered.
Tucker town
site of the largest oil production of oil
186,000,000 barrels of oil
Town vanishes by 1935
Tuckertown

William Orville Frizzell
born 1928
born in Tuckertown










Merle Haggard




William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell
1930's Filling Station

Magnolia Filling station



Dr Pepper cooler


Old brick paver's from local and area brick companies

Palmer

Groesbeck

Kooken

Benton/Corsicana

Mexia

Ferris

Ferris

Cole




Old oil pump

First National Bank clock

Cotton Gin Scale House


Load of Cotton was weighed on the drive-on scale 





Peace Officers Museum

Christening dress
1889




We had a wonderful time at the Pioneer Village!!
Lots of fun artifacts!!!



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