kit carson ate here

 

About 1850 Kit Carson moved from Taos to Rayado to help his friend Lucien Maxwell protect settlers from Indians.  Today Kit's residence is a "recreated historic site" outfitted like it would have been during the time period. (PS - the dining room was the next room to where the chickens were setting!)

Kit Carson Museum
Rayado, New Mexico
8.19. 2016



train stop

 

I am ashamed to admit that in all the time I've been BY the Hale County Farm & Ranch Museum, I've never actually visited it until today.  Here is the 1911 restored Santa Fe train depot with the 1907 Pinkerton farm house reflected in the window.  Besides the hundred pieces of rusted farm equipment, where else could one see a button collection spanning over 80 years, the first electric permanent wave machine from a Lockney beauty shop or assorted uniforms from Hale County veterans?

 

Hale County Farm & Ranch Museum

Hale Center, Texas