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Archives Shelving Project

Creston Museum November 30, 2020Behind The Scenes, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

These are a few photos of the Archives storage vault – the space where we house all the photographs, documents, newspapers, and maps that contain so much valuable information about the community and its  people. We use these collections all …

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Logging Arch!

Creston Museum July 17, 2020Daily Dose of History, Logging Arch, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Sometime between 1908 and 1913, C.O. Rodgers brought a logging arch into the Creston Valley, for use in the logging operations for his Canyon City sawmill. A logging arch is a horse-drawn log-skidding machine. Two huge wheels – ten feet …

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How to use a logging arch

Creston Museum May 28, 2019Logging Arch, News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Seriously, getting to work in a museum is the best thing ever. I mean, where else do you get to talk to all sorts of fascinating people, get transported back in time through old newspapers and photographs, and play with …

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Whether the weather be cold…

Creston Museum August 18, 2018News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

Whether the weather be cold, whether the weather be hot… One thing you can always be sure of is there will be weather, and you can be almost as sure that we’re going to be talking about it. It’s too …

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All Good Things…

Creston Museum July 20, 2018News & Articles, What We're Up To Now Leave a Comment

…must come to an end. Isn’t that how the saying goes? When we look back at the history of the Creston Valley, we see a lot of “lasts.” Like the one hinted at in the newspaper ad to the left …

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