All Entries Tagged With: "Big Timbers Museum"
Big Timbers History Corner #11 – Lamar Girls
One of the many, many things and places named after Lucius Quintus Cincinatus Lamar II was our town. This photo shows two of his grand-daughters in 1950, when they came out from Washington, DC for a town celebration. The one on the right was dubbed Miss Lamar. Nothing on the display says whether there was a […]
Big Timbers History Corner #10 – Cigarette Holder
Talk about a connection to history! If you go out to Big Timbers Museum and find this case (near the Fleagle Bank Robbery display), you will be inches away from this cigarette holder which was once personally owned and used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt! You could theoretically clone him from this! (If you had […]
Big Timbers History Corner #9 – Fox Cafe
This poor little business card for the Fox Cafe has really seen the rough side of life, but somehow it survived to enhance the collection of the Big Timbers Museum. Notice what a big selling point air conditioning was back then! (Maybe even more so than now?) The Fox Cafe was on Main Street, where […]
Big Timbers History Corner #8 – Lamar, CO, The Land of Milk and Money
I sure wish I knew the story behind this item loaned to the Big Timbers collection by Thomas Nidey. We think perhaps it was a reference to the old condensed milk factory, possibly displayed on their trucks? Still funny after all these years. Speaking of money, Big Timbers Museum doesn’t ask for much. Admission is […]
Big Timbers History Corner #6 – Gold Medal from Lamar’s First Stock Show
Summer has barely started, but the Sand and Sage Fair will be here before you know it! Getting together for friendly competition about whose stock takes the prize is a great tradition. This gold medal was awarded to L. Wirt Markham’s Holsteins at Lamar’s first stock show. Speaking of winners, Big Timbers Museum thinks their […]
Big Timbers History Corner #4 – 1965 Flood
This copy of the Sunday, June 20, 1965 issue of the Rocky Mountain News was recently donated to Big Timbers Museum by Clara Weber. When people think of the museum’s collection, they usually picture the items on display. But there are thousands of other treasures stored and filed, waiting to help fill in the blanks of local folks’ stories. The […]
Big Timbers History Corner #3
This photocopy of an article featuring the very first graduating class at Lamar High School in 1907 was donated by Mrs. Lee Strain. Her given name was Coy and it isn’t much of a stretch to guess that the young lady in the photo named Coy Beavers was our donator at a young age. Good […]
Big Timbers History Corner #2
Despite the serrated edges and the tongs, this is NOT a device from an old-time kitchen! It’s a baby holder, used in the J. H. Ward photo studios to prop tiny ones up so they could have their portraits taken. The babies who sat here long ago are now old enough to be enjoying pictures […]
DAR Visitors to Museum
Members of Denver’s Columbine Chapter of the National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution hit the trail to Lamar over the weekend of April 28th. Their goal was a viewing of Colorado’s statue of The Madonna of the Trail. Michelle Brown, Darla DeSautels, and Diane and Laura Dykstra also visited Big Timbers Museum, and […]
Big Timbers History Corner #1
Do you ever imagine what Lamar was like in its younger days? Where was the nicest place in town to eat out in the first half of the 20th Century? The Maxwell House would have been a major contender for that honor. It was located where PCDI is today, right at the corner of Main […]
Commissioners Approve Museum Roof Project
The Prowers County Commissioners have given the go ahead for construction of a new roof for the Big Timbers Museum. The project had been delayed for almost a year due to a lack of needed funding from grants in 2011, coupled with a new set of bids this year that had almost doubled the […]
Prowers County Commissioners Delay Closing CR 9
A decision on closing County Road 9 off Highway 287 in Prowers County will be delayed for 30 days. Greg Emick and Charlie Fowler met with the Prowers County Commissioners, Tuesday, March 27. Emick is purchasing some land which adjoins property he currently owns. The purchase would give him land on both sides of […]
Big Timbers Museum Update
Curator Kathleen Scranton detailed the quarterly update for activities at the Big Timbers Museum during the weekly Prowers County Commissioners meeting, Thursday, January 26. Museum staff has currently inventoried 8,112 separate items, according to Scranton, about a third of display items on hand. She said volunteers from the Prowers Historical Society are helping categorize […]
ART & ARTIFACTS WINTER DAY CAMP
PRESS RELEASE Big Timbers Museum hosted the Art & Artifacts Winter Day on Saturday, December 10, 2011. Over 40 kids and adults attended the event to make holiday ornaments and decorate Marshmallow – Sugar Cookie Snowmen.
Prowers County Approves 2012 Budget
The 2012 Prowers County budget, approved by the county commissioners following December 8 public hearing, totals $17,665,344, a decrease from the 2011 budget which is $18,128,583. Tax mills for 2012 are unchanged from 2011 at 27.17. Funds generated from the mill levy have increased $44,000 over last year to $3,359,257. The assessment is based on […]
City Moves Ahead on Willow Creek Levee Improvements/Swears in Councilmembers
Members of the former Lamar City Council held a brief session Monday night, November 14. City Clerk, Linda Williams reviewed the City Sales and Use Tax report for September collections, which detailed another monthly increase. City Administrator, Bill Pfeisticker provided the council with an update on used and unused railroad property just west of the railroad […]
Two Lamar City Council Sessions Scheduled
The first meeting for the outgoing council will begin at 6:30pm Monday night, November 14, and a half hour reception for the outgoing and incoming council will start at 7pm. Limited activity for the first meeting will consist of an update on city sales tax revenue, the consent agenda, including the renewal of several liquor […]
Prowers County Backs Tri State Transmission Project
The Prowers County Commissioners joined with several other counties this past week, offering a resolution of support for the Tri State G & T, Tri State Lamar-Front Range Transmission Project. The project will develop a high voltage electricity transmission system by 2018 across eastern and southern Colorado. Fourteen counties in eastern Colorado, including six in […]
Windmillers’ Trade Fair Wraps Up Annual Event in Lamar
Flatbeds and pick-up trucks and cars with out-of-state license plates from Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and some from Colorado were on hand at the Prowers County Fairgrounds this past Wednesday through Friday. Visitors were in Lamar for the 23rd Annual Windmillers’ Trade Fair, an opportunity for enthusiasts to display their collectables and view all the other […]
The Prowers County Wagons are Getting their New Home
The Prowers County Commissioners, Big Timbers Museum officials, members of the Prowers Historical Board and local tourism supporters are counting off the days on their calendars until 11am, June 25, the scheduled opening day of the new transportation museum for the county. Opening day will bring and end to over […]