FUND DRIVE LAUNCHED FOR STEAM MUSEUM

By Dana C. Jennings
Published on September 1, 1967
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Map shows planned layout of historical village, with space for parking, machinery display, growing grain for threshing and for annual threshing jubilee. The 1966 event was held in August. The map is by Larry Green. Courtesy of Dana C. Jennings, 216 NW 7,
Map shows planned layout of historical village, with space for parking, machinery display, growing grain for threshing and for annual threshing jubilee. The 1966 event was held in August. The map is by Larry Green. Courtesy of Dana C. Jennings, 216 NW 7,
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Historical village includes old-time saloon, early school, jail, church, home, claim shanty, soddy, electric museum and display of classic steam traction engines, gas tractors, old cars and farm equipment. Watercolor by Larry Green. Courtesy of Dana C. Je
Historical village includes old-time saloon, early school, jail, church, home, claim shanty, soddy, electric museum and display of classic steam traction engines, gas tractors, old cars and farm equipment. Watercolor by Larry Green. Courtesy of Dana C. Je

216 NW 7 Madison, S.D. 57042

More than 10,000 people paid to watch steam traction engines
plow and thresh near Madison, S.D. August, 1965 the third annual
Steam Thresher’s Jubilee. The Madison chamber of commerce took
a new interest in the project, staged by the Eastern South Dakota
Threshermens Association.

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