Located in Anderson, California. Open by appointment only. With artifacts, photographs, research lib
We have all year books for AUHS and WVHS as well as many grammar school year books from the 50's and 60's and encourage reunion committees to have meetings here. Many non electric tools, toys, utility items, mining display, farm/ranch items, ACID Canal model and much more.
Workday Monday today, John, Cutsy and Mike Robinson also class of 1969 stopped in. Many stories told. Then a 1800's bottle hunter/collector Larry Smith stopped in with a flier advertising a bottle show Jan 18th at the Fair grounds. Larry is holding a bottle he just paid $600 for. He is coming down Thursday 10 am to talk to Millie Moravec who hunted/collected 1800 bottles all over Tehama/Shasta County in the 1950-1970's.
sheet Rock inspected and passed, just need to add a second layer 5/8 sheet rock to the far wall, it is a fire wall adjoining the bathrooms. Once it is inspected it will be taped and topped, no texturing.
Sheet rock half done, Thanks High Performance Dry Wall Inc.
Ray and Matt from Meeks Insulation Dept installing our insulation, Inspection Monday and scheduled delivery of sheetrock Monday, then schedule installation by High Performance Dry Wall. If all goes well will be able to let public into see our artifacts
/wagons.
Yesterday we decided to finally get some paint on our Rental, next to the Museum Left to Right, Don Bloom our President, Randy Pricert Board Member, Dennis Forrester Member. We might be slow but 3 men with paint brushes do good work. Waiting till Tuesday 11/22 for Meeks to install Insulation in the Buggy Barn, then High Performance Dry wall to sheet rock after Thanksgiving. After passing inspeciton we can open the Buggy Barn to the Public.
With a surprise $20,000 anonymous donation we have the Buggy Barn Electrical roughed in and passed inspection, now taking bids for insulation, and Ron Jolliff writing grants for sheet rock this spring, unless we get funding from a surprise source before then.
Very productive Board Meeting today, afterward Wayne gave a tour of the workshop that Millie and Jeannie used to house displays.
About the time the second graders were leaving today, Scott Jones, owner of Mandinas Cabinet Shop, stopped in to donate his fathers class ring, class of 1953, looked up family members in our AURORA collection, and took out memberships for himself and son.
Today 3 Second grade classes from Meadow Lane School
rotated through the Columbia One Room School. Don Bloom presented overviews, answered questions and for the last class through Millie Moravec, 96 years old that went to the one room school in Happy Valley stole the show answering questions about every day life at the school. Also presenting was Ron Jolliff in the main Museum, Also helping were Donna Wehunt,, Randy Rickert, Wayne Cunningham and John Snider. Looked like a successful event.
This will be a repeat post for some, I posted to my private page by accident. Busy day today, Cutsy finished retainer wall/sitting area between Workshop and school house, Don repaired leak in Museum Roof, Display case for Books For Sale readied, Some excavating for road base,
On this Workday Monday, Randy Rickert and sister Jan Anderson paid a visit. Randy has generously donated three boxes of historical material including 23 books for the research library, 40 Shasta Historical Covered Wagons for sale, several tins and bottles for display and more.
Millie Moravec, Jean Harp and John Snider moving accessioned materials out of the Buggy Barn and into the new metal shed for Accessioned Materials. We are close to having enough room to move the buggy and stagecoach into the Buggy Barn. We will soon get two more buggies once space is made for them.
Wayne Cunningham and Dennis Forrester are busy organizing the Garage, now a workshop.
Buggy loaded at Jollys Barn, Travis Thomas volunteered truck and trailer to move. After 13 years stored here, nice 96th Birthday Present for Millie Moravec 6-28-1926 to get it to the museum !! This is the first of 4 buggies to end up in our Buggy Barn.
Our June 3-4 sale
raised nearly $$ 1,000 toward the $ 40,000 estimated to finish the interior of the Barn.
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
Two Projects going on, Preparing to move the stagecoach and buggy from the Jollys Barn, and getting ready for a garage sale fundraiser to finish the inside of the Barn/display room. We welcome donated items for the sale to raise money to complete the inside of the display room. It needs electrical, insulation, sheetrock, HVAC unit. Millie Moravec,
May 15 last year Melissa Kelley contacted us to get information on her grandfather Norman Fox, graduated 1928. She was writing a book on family history from the 1800's on. We sent her pictures and print of his activities and she promised one of the books when printed. The 350 page book came last week and is now in our Library. Local interest is her great grandmother Lena Fox, widowed with 2 sons moved from Kentucky to 15 miles west of Cottonwood, bought a ranch north of Gas Point, on the west side of Cottonwood Creek on what is now Lower Gas Point Road. The ranch sustained the family for near 30 years when Lena sold it. Norman Fox went to Anderson High School graduating 1928 Valdictorian at 16, graduated Medical School Stanford age 24, Private Practice a few years in San Bruno then a flight surgeon WWII, back to Private Practice for 40 years in San Bruno. Very interesting look into life then.
Forgot to add picture of barn with roll up door installed. Don't you think that barn makes Don look good ?!!
Barn Painted by Walgamuth Painting, Roll up door installed by North Valley Garage Door, good work men!! and the Garden is open for visitors all daylight hours, walk through gate on the left side of the museum is access, the garden is in back of the museum. museum open by appointment only, but the work crew usually there Mondays.
The barn is secure with roll up door added so items stored in the garage were moved out to access the past member memorial display that had to be removed from the inside can be moved to the Gazebo.
Painted by Walgamuth Painting. Next items will be mounting the roll up door, and road base level with cement.
Todays Workday Monday with Wayne Cunningham and Tom Anstead on the new School House Stairs. You may recall the old stairs twice as wide were removed to allow the cement pour between the school and bathrooms last month, Waynes artistic talent on display here, made of redwood to last and boxed in to keep critters out.
Don Bloom getting fixtures mounted in the bathrooms.
Our all volunteer workforce preserving our operating budget with necessary repairs and new projects.
Remember we are open by appointment, private message here or text/email andersonhistorical.com, we are actively seeking volunteer docents to allow for regular open hours.
Our dynamic Board meetings very second Wednesday (as in tomorrow) 10-12 noon are open to the membership.
Buggy Barn Update, The exterior is nearly finished and we are pursuing funding for the interior work. The Display room we call The Buggy Barn is nearly 1,100 square feet floor space. Open to Public as soon as finished.
Jan 24th An ADA accessable cement apron was made by Wayne Cunningham, Don Bloom, Dennis Forrester.
Today the crew put up trusses and some siding,
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
Cody, Mitch and Michael add finishing touches, good work men !!
The date on the video is wrong, this is Jan 27, 2022.
It goes pretty fast with this crew
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
The Buggy Barn, planned since 2009 is being built !! Yesterday Randy Pricert brought his small backhoe to dig out a Mimosa tree in the middle of the building site for the Buggy Barn so as to not bother Bob Nichol Construction who will break ground Monday on the long awaited Buggy Barn. We accepted Bob Nichols bid to build the Buggy Barn this morning. We have funds on hand to complete the outside then, depending on donations of materials and money will start the inside, insulation, sheetrock, wiring and HVAC unit. A heart felt thanks to all the donors over the years for this long awaited display room. Bob Nichol expects the outside to be finished within 2 months, updates will be posted,
Here is an interesting story. Kevin Sweeney is a Lassen Park Ranger, had this operators switchboard in storage in Redding, contacted us to see if we were interested in having it as it wouldn't fit into their park theme. He thought it was used in a building in the park but did not know where. We got it last week and on a google search found Mt. Lassen Hotel in Susanville. We contacted Lassen County Historical Society, offered it to them and they accepted. We now are looking for an opportunity to get it to them.
City of Anderson issued the permit for us to build a 34 X 32 ft Buggy Barn, Plans in hand will be pursuing bids right away.
We had updated business cards printed, got a $1400 grant from The Community Foundation of the North State for our Indigenous display, already purchased 17 books for near $600 and looking to buy 2 new display cases next.
As of last Thursday City of Anderson told us to expect our building permit for the Buggy Barn to be issued this week. And if all goes well, we get a materials list and contractor, money is adequate then to get it built by the end of June. We don't know what to expect for cost as prices have changed a lot in the past year.
Audrey and Paul Jolly are responsible for our having the Museum and Rental which generates about the same revenue as our annual expenses. Millie and Rex Moravec have been mainstays for decades, and Rewena Goodner was an awesome contributor as well! The current Board is carrying on the tradition of giving liberally to the cause of public education and making artifacts available.
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
There is no longer a telephone at Anderson Historical Museum and we are open by appointment only. Contact by
-Fb Private Message
-Website contact form at andersonhistorical.com
-Email: rajolliff .com
-John Snider 530-949-7096 text preferred
-Don Bloom 530-945-9800 text preferred
Photos from Anderson Historical Society and Museum's post
BUGGY BARN UPDATE, 9-23-2021 Semingson Architecture and Engineering has submitted plans to the City of Anderson for a plan review. This project started by Lou Ann Sandoval 11 years ago completed Phase One several years ago consisting of 2 Disable either s*x bathrooms and a workshop in a 320 sq. ft. building. Plans now under review is Phase Two, an 1,100 Sq ft. display room That will be attached to Phase One featuring Horse Drawn vehicles, and much more. Next business items, getting a building permit and finding a contractor. We are hopeful to have it completed by June.
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Buggy loaded at Jollys Barn, Travis Thomas volunteered truck and trailer to move. After 13 years stored here, nice 96th Birthday Present for Millie Moravec 6-28-1926 to get it to the museum !! This is the first of 4 buggies to end up in our Buggy Barn.
Cody, Mitch and Michael add finishing touches, good work men !! The date on the video is wrong, this is Jan 27, 2022.
It goes pretty fast with this crew
"Here in 1850 "Doc" Baker established a stopping place for emigrants on what became known as the Nobles Trails. George and Anna Maria Dersch bought out Baker and homesteaded the land in 1861. Tenants of the Dersches were responsible for whipping three Indian laborers working on the potato harvest at the ranch. As a result of this incident, Indians raided the property in 1866, fatally wounding Mrs. Dersch. In retaliation, a posse was formed and killed most of the Indians at their Dye Creek Camp." California Registered Historical Landmark No. 120 First registered March 31, 1933. Plaque placed by the State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Shasta Historical Society, Hollis Moss Historical Fund, and Trinitarianus Chapter #62, E Clampus Vitus, May 15, 1999.
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