Historic Power Show to Oliver Tractors Rochester, Ind. – Organizers are gearing up for the Fulton County Historical Power Show June 15- 17, 2012, located on the Fulton County Historical Society grounds four miles north of Rochester, Indiana, on U.S. 31. Show hours are Friday & Saturday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is $5.00 for adults (age 12 and over), free for children age 11 and under. Free parking and tram rides will be available. The grounds are handicapped accessible. No dogs or animals allowed at festival grounds except those that are handicapped assistance. The three-day event will host exhibitors of antique tractors, lawn tractors, hit-n-miss engines, farm equipment, and antique trucks. Toy Show and vendors of a variety of foods, crafts, flea market items, and swap parts will also be available on the grounds. The museum and Living History Village called Loyal, Indiana, will be open during the festival, free of charge to festival attendees. Other visitors coming to the museum that weekend will have to pay admissions to the grounds to visit the museum normally open Mon. thru Sat. from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This years featured business will be to announced. Economy & Power King Lawn tractors will be featured in the garden tractor section. A variety of tractors will be at the show including International Harvester, Farmall H, Allis Chalmers, Ford, John Deere, Case, Minneapolis Moline, Massey Harris, Oliver, Cockshutt, McCormick Deering, etc. All colors are welcome. Also displays of hit-n-miss engines, combine, trucks & other various farm related equipment and miniature train to name a few. This will be seconded year for Antique Trucks Display. Food vendors will provide something for everyone’s taste buds: sandwiches (hot & cold), onion rings, Kettle Korn, ice cream, elephant ears, and cotton candy. The Historical Society will be serving all you-can-eat breakfast buffet each morning starting at 7 a.m. each morning. This includes Sausage Biscuits & Gravy, Hash Browns, Scrambled Eggs, Ham, French Toast, Fruit & Drinks. Also in the air-conditioned meeting room of the museum, lunch will include a submarine sandwich and homemade pie. This is all part of the tractor show so admission has to be paid to get onto grounds - even just to eat breakfast. Activities during the show will include a parade of trucks and tractors each day at noon. Tractor games will take place all three days. These contests are all done while on a tractor or garden tractor. Games for the kids are also being planned such as Pedal Tractor Pull and Money in the Straw, and more. Antique tractor light & heavy weight pull will be held at 5 p.m. Friday. Powder puff and team tractor pull will be at 1 p.m. on Saturday - two tractors pull one old-fashioned stone boat. The teams have to pull evenly to make it work. Northern Indiana Horsepullers Assn. will hold it annual horsepull at 7 p.m. on Saturday. New this year the Indiana Garden Tractor Pullers will hold a pull starting at 9 a.m. Sunday. Followed by the 50/50 pull at 1 p.m. Sunday - both the driver and the tractor have to be 50 years old or older to participate. Demonstrations will include baling hay, corn grinder, burr mills,corn sheller, buzz saw, edger, and sawmill. These activities will take place at different times during the day. Rich Rensberger, president of the Fulton County Historical Power Association, as well as the other members of the group are very enthusiastic in planning the Power Show. Members are from Fulton, Pulaski, Marshall, St. Joseph, Kosciusko, Miami and other counties. Persons interested in joining the group can do so by sending dues of $15 to Fulton Co. Hist. Power Assn, PO Box 773, Rochester, IN 46975. The Power Association is a branch of the Fulton County Historical Society and meets monthly on the second Tuesday at the Fulton County Museum at 7 p.m. The Power Association has this question for you, the reader. What special or unique piece of equipment do you have hidden away in your barn? Would you like to exhibit at a power show? Now is your chance! To exhibit at the power show, please contact the Power Association at the above address or call Melinda Clinger, secretary at 574-223-4436 or e-mail melinda@rtcol.com. You can also check us out on the web page at www.fultoncountyhistory.org. Application information is on the web page. - See Above. Photo slideshows of 2010 Historical Power Show are loading...please be patient. |
Fulton County Historical Power Show
| Fulton County Historical Society |
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Located in North Central Indiana
| 10th annual Fulton County Historical Power & Toy Show June 2012 Rochester, IND |
Chad Lewis, Tiosa, designed the FCHPA logo.
Lewis makes magnetic signs for tractors as well
as advertising signs for vehicles and will have a
display at the Fulton County Historical Power
Show.
Lewis makes magnetic signs for tractors as well
as advertising signs for vehicles and will have a
display at the Fulton County Historical Power
Show.
About the Historical Power Association Logo:
The logo has the shape of Fulton County with a
flag flying in one corner, a windmill in the
background, and a Rumely Oil Pull tractor. This
tractor has a Fulton County connection as Edward
Rumely married Fanny Scott, great-granddaughter
of William Polke, surveyor of the Michigan Road
and Fulton County's first white settler in 1830. She
owned the Fanny Scott farm that was located west
of Rochester on Indiana 14 until her death in 1979.
Meinrad & Jacob Rumely came to Laporte, Ind. in
1848 and founded the original M & J Rumely
Company in 1853. This company was later known
as M. Rumely Company. In 1931 the company
merged with Allis Chalmers and became known as
Allis-Chalmers-Rumely.
Edward Rumely was the son of Joseph Rumely,
and grandson of Meinrad Rumely. He studied at
Oxford and Heidelburg, Germany, where he
became acquainted with Rudolf Diesel. From here
he developed a keen interest in the internal
combustion engine. In 1907 he returned to Laporte
and took a position in the company. Edward then
went to work to produce a reliable farm tractor. A
new shop building was built and with the help of
John A. Secor who developed the carburetor for
the OilPull tractor they started producing in Feb.
1910.
The Rumely OilPull was one of the first engines
able to economically burn kerosene, which was
much cheaper and more plentiful than gasoline.
The logo has the shape of Fulton County with a
flag flying in one corner, a windmill in the
background, and a Rumely Oil Pull tractor. This
tractor has a Fulton County connection as Edward
Rumely married Fanny Scott, great-granddaughter
of William Polke, surveyor of the Michigan Road
and Fulton County's first white settler in 1830. She
owned the Fanny Scott farm that was located west
of Rochester on Indiana 14 until her death in 1979.
Meinrad & Jacob Rumely came to Laporte, Ind. in
1848 and founded the original M & J Rumely
Company in 1853. This company was later known
as M. Rumely Company. In 1931 the company
merged with Allis Chalmers and became known as
Allis-Chalmers-Rumely.
Edward Rumely was the son of Joseph Rumely,
and grandson of Meinrad Rumely. He studied at
Oxford and Heidelburg, Germany, where he
became acquainted with Rudolf Diesel. From here
he developed a keen interest in the internal
combustion engine. In 1907 he returned to Laporte
and took a position in the company. Edward then
went to work to produce a reliable farm tractor. A
new shop building was built and with the help of
John A. Secor who developed the carburetor for
the OilPull tractor they started producing in Feb.
1910.
The Rumely OilPull was one of the first engines
able to economically burn kerosene, which was
much cheaper and more plentiful than gasoline.
