Museum of Ashe County History, Inc.: News and Events

September 25, 2010

Mark your Calendar! 

The 26th North Carolina Regiment Troops will conduct a Living History Program on Saturday, September 25th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the 1904 Courthouse in Jefferson. This will include field music and other field experiences of the Confederate unit. A separate program will be conducted on Friday, September 24th for 3rd grade students. Ashe County citizens' participation in the War Between the States will be reflected in a display in the Museum of Ashe County History.

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The Model Building Team

- A team of model builders are working very hard on the large project, with a goal of completion sometime around Christmas of this year. Buildings and surroundings will be duplicated as accurately as possible.  

- Some of the professional model builders include: 

* Stephen Shoemaker 

* Mike Herman 

* Rick Herman 

* Job Hopkins 

* Bill Baker 

* Craig Miller 

* Dr. Lee Beckworth 

* Jim Lewis 

* John Reeves 

* Al Heitmann 

* Andy Lindley 

* Jerry Brown.

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The Model Railroad Display in progress

The permanent train display, or diorama, in the Museum of Ashe History will consist of a thirty by four foot table with an HO scale model train passing through four of its stops in Ashe County.

• First stop will be Tuckerdale NC, as it was in the mid 20's. Tuckerdale was a main stop for the Hassinger Lumber Company, the town included a hotel, doctor's offices, dry goods store, depot and was a water stop for the Steam Train. 
• Next stop in our display will be Lansing as it was in the mid 30's. Lansing was also a major stop and included a restaurant, and tons of lumber and logs ready to be loaded and hauled back to Koroner Rock Va.  
• Next on the display will be West Jefferson which will be depicted in the mid 40's. It was the largest of the stops where the train could turn around or before 1933, could continue to Todd NC.  
• The last stop in the display will be Todd NC when it was booming in the mid 20's also. Included in Todd were a hotel or inn, a brothel, a water stop, doctors offices, depot and a turn table to turn the locomotive and tinder around for the return trip. The timber industry again was the reason for the boom in Todd.

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Model Railroad Building

This is one example of the detailed building replicas that are being prepared for the permanent model railroad in the Museum of Ashe County History.

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Model Railroad Building

This is another example of a building replica to be displayed on the permanent train display in the Museum of Ashe County History.

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