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Harlin P. Wilson Agricultural Museum, Shafter, CA
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Harlin P. Wilson Agricultural Museum

A barn-based museum beside the Shafter Depot Museum that covers the area's cotton and potato farming history.

Shafter, CA

About Harlin P. Wilson Agricultural Museum

Located next to the Shafter Depot Museum, this large red barn holds exhibits on the agricultural past of the Shafter area, where cotton and potatoes became the main crops. Cotton displays include early research equipment from a nearby USDA station and farm machinery ranging from hand-picking sacks to a one-row picker. The potato section recalls the region's sandy-soil growing success and its Shafter Long White variety, with a 1937 packing shed exhibit, field machinery, a rail ice car, and a 1956 film about harvest and rail shipment. A recreated blacksmith shop uses original equipment from a local shop that opened in 1923.

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