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Ag History On Display In Iowa
Heartland Acres Agribition Center puts the focus on agriculture and ag history. The combination museum and exhibition/event center attracts tourists to the community. It also brings in groups of up to 450 people looking for a place to meet and explore.
Located in northeastern Iowa, the Heartland Acres Museum ref
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Ag History On Display In Iowa
Heartland Acres Agribition Center puts the focus on agriculture and ag history. The combination museum and exhibition/event center attracts tourists to the community. It also brings in groups of up to 450 people looking for a place to meet and explore.
Located in northeastern Iowa, the Heartland Acres Museum reflects the agricultural history of the area. Exhibits include modern and vintage tractors, implements, cars and much more. The 18,500-sq. ft. replica of an 1800s barn encloses displays representing the past, present and future of Iowa Agriculture.
“Our Hall of Time, with its two floors of exhibits, goes from the 1840s through modern-day farming,” says Leanne Harrison, Heartland Acres Agribition Center. “There are exhibits on the impact of electricity, a windmill display and a 1920s kitchen and parlor.”
The large, wooden windmill is a reconstructed 1900 Monitor Vaneless (no rudder). Only 24 of its type are known to still exist in the U.S.
Visitors get up close to a John Deere Waterloo Boy, horse-drawn equipment and early horseless carriages. Displays include a 1920s gas station display, complete with pumps, a vintage car, and early firefighting equipment.
A doctor’s buggy display includes the medical equipment a doctor would take with him on house calls.
Interactive exhibits include a series of stations where participants can shell ear corn, carry the kernels to a grindstone for milling and then to a sifting station. The results can be fed to livestock in an outside display.
Other outside exhibits include a threshing machine with explanatory murals, a smaller pull-type combine and a variety of implements. A path leads to a one-room schoolhouse and a machine shed with a large collection of antique tractors.
Modern equipment exhibits vary from time to time, with loans from collectors. One of the surviving Big Bud tractors proved very popular.
“The Big Bud was a star attraction and brought in around 5,000 visitors a year before it was returned to its owners in Wyoming,” says Harrison.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Heartland Acres Agribition Center, 2600 Swan Lake Blvd., Independence, Iowa 50644 (ph 319-332-0123; info@heartlandacresusa.com; www.heartlandacresusa.com).
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