New exhibits are on display at the Warren County History Museum, explains Director Dr. Eugene Watkins:
“We were able to obtain some diagrams for Oscar Babcock’s ramp and loop that he did back in the early 20th Century. Folks that don’t know who Oscar Babcock is, he was kind of the early 20th Century Evel Knievel on a bicycle, and he ended up falling madly in love with a woman while he was visiting for one of the fall festivals in 1921. He ended up marrying her and then he moved and stayed here for the rest of his life. We have also unveiled a new National Cornhusking Association exhibit. What a phenomenon the cornhusking became in the 1920s, 1930s, and unfortunately World War I kind of killed the whole thing with a lot of the farmers being called up to go fight. Also, we were able to obtain a Weir Plow. That was one of a number of plow factories that existed in Monmouth. Weir was one of the early ones and the plow that the museum was able to get, was probably made sometime in January or February of 1865.”
Dr. Watkins informs a Civil War exhibit will also be opening soon, featuring a piece of a cannon artillery round from 1862.
