Library Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
IN2019.61.242.12 |
Title |
Traditions |
Summary |
Traditions. Volume 1 Number 3. December 1987. Four pages. Contents include: Collier County's clamming industry Cecil Oglesby Sr. and Lee Tidewater Cypress Company's engine number 2 Oglesby usually operated Number 2 or Number 16 while Bud Farnum operated Number 4, Emmanuel Beasley ran Number 7 or Number 16, Sambo Applewhite operated Number 11, and "Red" worked as the stand-in engineer. A flagman and a fireman always traveled with the engineers: the flagman to direct the engineer, and the fireman to shovel coal into the forge-hot firebox. Also includes new collections objects: complete set of J.B. Janes and Company pay tokens, mature royal palms donated by the people of Everglades City that were transplanted near the museum's pond, fossil collection, hand-cranked Singer sewing machine and daguerreotype of a little girl for the new Seminole Wars exhibit. In honor of the upcoming sixtieth anniversary of the opening of the Tamiami Trail, Bob Weyers and the Matthews Memorial Company have funded the restoration of the original dedication plaques which were once part of the Tamiami Trail arch. The stone arch stood at the Collier and Dade border and was erected to commemorate Barron Collier and the men who were part of the building of the trail. When the road was widened, the arch was torn down. Just by chance, a workman saved the plaques from destruction. The large bronze plaques will be remounted on a reconstructed arch on the museum site. |
Object Name |
Newsletter |
Published Date |
December 1987 |
Year Range from |
1987 |
Multimedia File |
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Accession number |
IN2019.61 |
Physical Description |
11" x 8 1/2" |