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The Wisconsin State Agricultural Museum includes America’s oldest surviving tractor, an 1899 McCormick Auto-Mower that was a prototype.
The Stonefield State Farm Museum is in a former barn on the estate. It currently serves as the gift shop and museum headquarters.
The history of Wisconsin’s cheese and cheesemaking is on display at the creamery in the historical village.
The Monitor Windmill, damaged in a 2022 wind storm, is repaired and reinstalled in 2024.
The Wisconsin State Agricultural Museum is on the footprint of Nelson Dewey’s sheep barn; it opened in 1971.
Agriculture equipment through the years are on display in the Wisconsin State Agricultural Museum as well as various outbuildings.
The parlor in the reconstructed 1901 farmhouse shows the house was built to specifications from a model that could be ordered in the Sears & Roebuck Catalogue.
A Ford 960 row-crop tractor has a narrow front; it replaced the popular N-series and was produced from 1954 to 1957.
Walter Cass Newberry of Chicago bought some of the former Stonefield estate and in the 1890s rebuilt the house on the former ruins of the Dewey House. The rebuild eliminated the third floor and the Gothic styling, but is still an important historic site.
The Wisconsin State Agricultural Museum includes many displays – such as the growth of the state’s dairy industry.
The 1901 farmstead plan shows it has numerous buildings.
Nelson Dewey
CASSVILLE, Wis. – Who we are today is because of those who came before us.
Chris Hardie
Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, live on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he is a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. His book “Back Home: Country Tales by the Seasons” is available through Amazon.
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