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OELWEIN AREA HISTORICAL MUSEUM
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Location: 900 2nd Ave. SE, P. O. Box 445 - Oelwein, IA 50662
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Contact: Tom Schoenenberger
Phone: 319.283.2984
Fax:
Email: Oelwein_Area_Historical_Society@hotmail.com
Website: www.rootsweb.com/~iaoahs |
Museum displays include: a quaint country school room with assorted desks from various community schools, complete with lunch boxes, slates, pencil boxes and books and a teacher's dress worn in 1881; a kitchen with coal or wood burning cook stove, ice box, kerosene lamp, flat irons and many antique cooking utensils; old clothing, quilts; a Civil War drum and items from more recent wars; old typewriters; a 100-year-old child's casket; a scale model of a Chicago Great Western box car built by a group of employees for a war bond drive in 1943; a wooden, 100-year-old corn planter and much, much more...
The museum is open on Sunday afternoons from 1-4 until Sept. 24th. On July 9th, there will be special music. August 19-20 will be Heritage Days. There will be a flea market from 8-5.
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