Museums

Cuming County Historical Society Museum Complex

A cluster of historic buildings on the Cuming County fairgrounds holding local farm, rail, school, and church displays.

West Point, NE

About Cuming County Historical Society Museum Complex

The complex on the Cuming County fairgrounds gathers several relocated structures and their collections under one historical society. Visitors can walk through a railroad depot with early 1900s household exhibits, a caboose with its original interior, a country church, and a one-room schoolhouse. Other buildings hold antique tractors, horse-drawn implements, and early automobiles, and a large 1919 horse barn with an unusually tall roof stands on the grounds. The collection traces how farming moved from animal power to engines. The historical society and the county agricultural society care for the site.

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#farm machinery
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#one-room schoolhouse
#church

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