A blog about the history of the Ozarks and the people who have lived in the region from the earliest recorded history to today.
![Fireplace Tool](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2012-104-3-featured.jpg)
Fireplace Tool
Gaines Tucker and his wife, Estelle “Essie” Dill West Tucker, used this handmade fireplace poker at their home in the Dean community near Metalton (Carroll County). . . .
![Nick Clemmons](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/P-172-featured.jpg)
Nick Clemmons
Fayetteville resident Nick Clemmons, circa 1910. We find Clemmons on the 1880 census, a 40-year-old widower living in Fayetteville with nine children and grandchildren. . . .
![Hardness Tester](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/2020-1-70-featured.jpg)
Hardness Tester
This Rockwell hardness tester was used to determine the strength, or “hardness,” of metal. Hardness was measured by attempting to put a dent into metal . . .
![The Carnahans](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/98-2-584-featured.jpg)
The Carnahans
Rev. Peter Carnahan (1838-1926) and his wife, Martha Jane Buchanan Carnahan (1841-1922), at their home in Bentonville, 1890. . . .
![Baptismal Font](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2019-33-1-featured.jpg)
Baptismal Font
This free-standing wooden font originally included a metal water basin housed under the font’s conical lid. Water from the basin was used to perform the rite of baptism . . .
![Summers Depot](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/87-343-2-1.jpg)
Summers Depot
Ozark & Cherokee Central (O&CC)/Frisco Muskogee Branch Railway depot, Summers (Washington County), early 1900s. . . .
![Christmas Mouse](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2005-109-19-featured.jpg)
Christmas Mouse
Made by the New York-based Eden Toys, Inc., this musical mouse spins in a circle while playing “Deck the Halls.” It has a copyright date of 1982 and was sewn in Haiti. . . .
![Finding Alsey Timberlake](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/alsey-featured.jpg)
Finding Alsey Timberlake
Carnanan Cemetery is high atop a windswept hill in the west Washington County community of Cane Hill. Could this be the final resting place of a Cherokee girl who died on the Trail of Tears? . . .
![Turkey Drive](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2001-2-95-featured.jpg)
Turkey Drive
Driving turkeys to market near Kingston (Madison County), early 1920s.
![“U.S. Presidents” Volvelle](https://shilohmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/86-288-4-1-featured.jpg)
“U.S. Presidents” Volvelle
This “Biographies of U.S. Presidents” volvelle was produced by Arthur Sichel of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has a copyright date of 1931. Information for each president includes . . .