Museum Hours
effective April 26, 09
Updated March 5, 2010! Museum Events
E-Tour the Museum!
_____________________
Front Hall
Truck Room
Truck Room 2
Scout Room
Schools
Hotels & Businesses
Toy Room
Kitchen & Dressing
Room
Old Sulphur Hotels
Page 1
What, where, when, who, why? Help us solve a mystery!
| Collections-Truck Room 2 | |||
|
Can you believe how long the handles on these shovels are? They were donated to the museum by Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. and were used before power tools were available to dig holes for the utility poles and other needs. |
A Sulphur business pioneer, C. M. Mays (above) started his chain of lumber yards in 1904 in old Sulphur Springs, I. T. He eventually had 6 stores in the Murray County area. He has been described as the foremost civic leader of the first 50 years of Sulphur. |
||
|
A unique display in the truck room is of handmade replicas of early-day transportation and industrial wagons, made by William Oscar White, born in 1895. He went to work as a blacksmith for the Dolese Rock Co. in 1925. The wagon models he built all have working parts and brakes. Many of them he had worked on the originals of, as a young man. He retired from Dolese in 1960 at the age of 65 and spent many hours on his hobby.
|
|
||
Also
in the truck room is an example of an antique phone switchboard. The
museum also has typewriters, adding machines and cash registers.