This is one of a pair of threshers beside the restored elevators at Rowley. A McCormick Deering, it was manufactured by International Harvester. McCormick began with Cyrus McCormick and the invention of the first successful agricultural reaper in 1831. On August 12, 1902,
International Harvester Company was formed by Cyrus McCormick, Jr. In short order it had claimed 95% of the harvesting equipment market in the US. It went on to produce every major type of machine used in agriculture, including tractors.
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.