American West: Then & Now
The successes in preserving our American West landmarks.
By: Mark Boardman 06/01/2009
Sod House Museum
(Aline, OK)
1894
Land rusher Marshall McCully—like so many others who’ve staked a claim in the Cherokee Outlet—builds a small, two-room home, made of buffalo grass bricks. Renovation is an ongoing effort. He is shown standing outside the soddy in the 1950s; he dies at the age of 93 in 1963.
2009
The Oklahoma Historical Society owns and operates the sod house as a museum, featuring McCully family artifacts and interpretive presentations. The building is the only sod house left from that period and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Spring City
(Spring City, UT)
1850s
Mormon pioneers build an agricultural community near the geographic center of Utah. Spring City is a diverse cultural community, and its architecture reflects that with Scandinavian and various American building styles.
2009
A renovation and preservation renaissance, started in the 1970s, makes Spring City perhaps the greatest Utah repository of architecturally significant buildings from the pioneer and early 20th-century eras.
And all are in use.
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Neligh Mill
(Neligh, NE)
1873
W.C. Gallaway begins operations at the water-powered Neligh Mill, which allows local farmers to grind their cereal grain crops into the more versatile form of flour and provides that flour to the settlers for use in bread and other baked goods.
2009
The Neligh Mill State Historic Site is a museum, commemorating the history of flour processing and farming in the area. Owned and operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society, it is the last mill in the state with all original parts.
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