Someone had managed to gather together about 60 farm implements and wagons and has decided to put them on display. The vast majority of the farm implements are very old horse drawn machines. The collection includes plows, cultivators, harrows, discs, mowers, corn planters, farm wagons, potato diggers and planters, a hay loader, a manure spreader and three road graders. The display is immediately north of Highway 37 and 1.2 miles west of Highway 93 which runs through Eureka and north to the Canadian border. The site appears to be accessible 24/7/365, at no charge.
Of all the sulky plows here, this would rank with the oldest. Very light and compact, it is likely a turn of the century item. The John Deere Sulky was the invention of one
Gilpin Moore, a brilliant inventor originally from Chester County, Pennsylvania. The second riding plow to come to market, it proved to be the best design of its time. The first, a design by Frederick S. Davenport, was patented in 1866. The "Gilpin Sulky", as it came to be known, would have come to market not long after. That first Gilpin plow was substantially different in layout than this one, indicating several years of evolution between the two.