This is one of a pair of threshers beside the restored elevators at Rowley. Though the logo on the side is now essentially illegible, the outline of the J.I. Case logo, with the eagles each side, is unmistakable.
Also on display at Rowley are a CPR caboose, a CPR speeder, a CPR boxcar and a McCormick Deering Tractor hitched to a Minneapolis Moline manure spreader. The little hamlet of Rowley has restored its remaining three elevators, its train station and a handful of buildings on main street. That's about all there is left of Rowley.
This thresher was built by the
J.I. Case Threshing Machine Company, formed in 1842 by Jerome Increase Case. It operated under that name until it reincorporated as the J.I. Case Company in 1928. Given that, in 1904, Case introduced the first all-steel thresher machine, that's the oldest this thresher could be, as it has no wooden parts to be seen, save for the blower paddles.