Seventeen display rooms of Fulton County Living: * Art, music, and entertainment - includes King's Jesters, Elmo Lincoln (the first Tarzan), Fulton Co. Players, and more. * Old-time kitchen, dining room, parlor, and bedroom - all furnished in 1910- 1935 style. * Scouts and toys - dolls by Ruby Dawson, Scout collections from Glendola Alber and Don Fites. * Health Services - Woodlawn Hospital, horse and buggy doctors, eye doctors, dentists, and the Red Cross. * Indians - Potawatomi Trail of Death, Chief White Eagle and Ervin Stuntz collections. * Transportation - railroads, highways, and airplanes. * Old-time general store & clothing displays in A. B. Shore Clothing Store cases. * Old-time barn - loft, chick incubator, tools, model round barns. * Schools and sports - Rochester College, one-room schools, Fulton County elementary and high schools. * Military - Civil War, Spanish American War, World Wars I and II, Korea, Viet Nam, Persian Gulf and all wars memorabilia. * Clubs and recreation - Lake Manitou, Appaloosa Pony Assn., fishing lures, Cracker Jack prizes, quilts, 4-H, and vintage cameras. * Merchants and industry - retail stores, factories, businesses, telephones, hotels, Chester White Swine Association * Churches - histories and souvenir plates of county churches, Bibles from 1834 on, altar, pew, organs. * Circus - Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus (had winter headquarters here from 1934-1940), high-wire bicycle act of Willie and Clara Lamberti, and ladder of Johnny "Laddie" Zoppe, much more. Features and Special Collections |
Fulton County Historical Society Museums
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Located in North Central Indiana
| Tetzlaff Reference Room The Tetzlaff Reference Room has been growing! Recent donations of Civil War books from Jack K. Overmyer, and genealogy reference books of Maryland, Delaware and other states from Wendell Tombaugh, both of Rochester, are now ready for you to use. The Ogle Collection is now in the Secretary's Office on shelves as it outgrew its former space. It contains genealogy reference books about Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and heraldry from James Donalson, St. Augustine Beach, Florida. These valuable additions are also ready for you to use. The Tetzlaff Reference Room is at the north end of the Fulton County Museum, a section added in 2001, created with funds donated to FCHS from Ruth and Alice Tetzlaff estates. This Reference Room is open whenever the museum is open: Monday - Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed holidays. The Tetzlaff Reference Room is 64 feet x 16 1/2 feet. Its collections are not just for genealogy but for local research into all subjects relating to Fulton County. |
| Fulton County Museum Built in 1987-88. Barnhart Gallery features special exhibits. The Gift Shop sells books about local history and Indians, Indian crafts, jewelry, pottery, paper dolls, and old-time toys. Open Mon.-Sat. 9 am -5 p.m. Closed holidays. Free admission. Donations welcome. Round Barn Museum Built in 1924. Moved and restored in 1990-91. Farm machinery and antique tool displays include buggy, covered wagon, 1912 Lincoln truck, horse-drawn reaper, sheller, milk cans, horse and cow stalls, etc. Open Mon.-Sat. 9 am - 5 p.m. May - September. Closed holidays. |
