 There's history here. And here. There's history there. History is everywhere. Hi, I'm Dorothy Cotton here at the Phoenix Historical Society Museum. And we're at 607 Church Street in Phoenix. And we're open from Monday through Friday from one to four. So you can buy and see us sometime. And if you welcome, welcome in. We'll show you some, show you around, show you what we have. The Phoenix Historical Society was started in 1998. And the museum was opened a couple years later. Here we have our little parlor stove. It was made around 1880. And it was originally used in the Brithouse. But we have it here. One of our members donated it. Here is a little sibley tent stove. It was made by Major Henry Sibley. And it was invented to fit into the side of his tent. It kept the tent warm. It was invented about 1857. This one was used in Fort Klamath. And it came to us on loan. This is our rocker arm, rocker for the mining claim. It was used up Anderson Creek and other places here locally when they were mining different gold and different things. So I have a lot of pictures of the schools that used to be here. From the early 1900s on, they were eventually taken down and the new ones put up. We have a lot of pictures of the old schools and a lot of students from many of the years back, dating back before 1900. We have a lot of old pictures. Some places that are still in existence here in Phoenix, others are no longer here. But we have a lot of, a large collection of old photographs of buildings and people from around the Phoenix area. One of them here is the Furry family. The Furry family came here in 1860 and lived here ever since. There are still members of the Furry family living here in Phoenix. Here is the Furry family home and hotel. The building was built in 1857. They lived there around 1808 or 1909 and kept it as a home and a hotel for many, many years. The building is still there. It is located on Main Street and it's still there. It can be, if you look at it just right, you can tell that it is the same building. It's been added onto a bit, but it's still the same building. This is our newest acquisition. It's a pump organ. It originally sat in the first Presbyterian church here in Phoenix. That was actually located on this site. The building is no longer here. When the Presbyterian church moved down about four blocks, they took the organ with them. And over the years it sat there, then was sold. It is now back with us. Family gave it back to us. They purchased it. They fixed it up and now it works fine. It's a pump organ, so it's difficult to play unless you know how. You need to pump the pedals down below before it makes any noise. Okay. So in order to play the pump organ, you need to pump the pedals before you can play it. Without pumping it, well, you have to wait until it stops. I left air in it. Without pumping it, it makes no noise. Okay, this is our hand-canceling machine from the post office. It was used many years ago, but it was used last used in 1993. Now of course it's all automated and they can do hundreds of letters a minute. But at the time, it was one at a time and it was all done by hand. So we still have it and it still works. Can you show us? Yes. The arm is in the way. And you can just put a letter in on this side. Well, I do it right backwards. Okay, see, that's what it does. And then it comes out and it hand-cancels, it cancels, it puts the date on it. There is a little date wheel right in here. I can't, I've never done it. We have a lady, one of our members works, was a postmaster for many years and she always takes care of it for us. So none of us have ever done anything with it. She always has. But it's quite an attraction for the children. If you put it, if you do it right, that one's getting kind of wrinkled. This is our slot machine that was also loaned to us. It came from Barclays Tavern, which is on Main Street. It is still there on Main Street. And right now it doesn't work, it's been locked. But it's one of the old nickel slot machines. It doesn't completely work anymore, it's been locked. But it does, it is one of the old nickel slot machines. Okay, this is a miniature of the Culver House. It was built to scale, that's why it's rather large. Because the house was on the historic registry, they went to Portland and got all the dimensions of it and built it to scale. So it's the exact scale. There is a few things in it from the original Culver House. After it burned, these pillars here, they weren't going to build the whole house out of that material, but they couldn't because it was way too hard to cut. So they did make the pillars here in the front out of the original boards from the Culver House. Actually, my brother built the house. He lived in Phoenix all his life and remembers the Culver House very well. And so he built the miniature for us, he and his wife. There's two pictures we have here. The first one is of the Culver, Salmon Hold the Culver, they're the ones that actually started the town. They came here in 1854, had a donation of land claim and built the big house, that was just the Culver House in 1854. It stood over the years and other families have owned it, many other people owned it. In 2008 it did burn. Sam Culver lived around here for all of, they lived here all their lives. He was an Indian agent and raised horses and was quite instrumental in the valley at that time. The Culver, the original Culver House was built in 1854 and stood on the highway on Highway 99 until 2008 when it burned. So it was the oldest house in the area for many, many years. And it was quite a landmark here in Phoenix. The pictures we have behind the house, we have the top row are members of the Stancliffe family. They were a very old family here in Phoenix. The gentleman on the right, Bert Stancliffe, lived to be 102 or 3. He was born here in Phoenix and that's his family. And the ones on the bottom are members of the Culver family. It's another huge family in Phoenix. They're the ones that built the Culver House, their ancestors or parents built the Culver House. Hat collection belongs to one of our members, Margaret. She has a large hat collection and she just brought a few of them into the forest to have on display so we could look at them. There's a lot of really interesting hats in her display. The doll collection is on loan from one of our members. They belong to his parent, his mother, some of them, and then he has the rest of them. And they're on loan from them. There's quite some old dolls in there and a lot of different ones. It's a nice spot to visit. We have picnic table, come in and enjoy your lunch. This is the mail cart that was used in Phoenix many years ago. The gentleman that ran the post office would take his tractor and attach it to his wagon and drive up the road to the train depot and pick up the mail twice a day and bring it back to the post office and that's the little cart he used. It was kind of funny. The museum actually sits in the corner of the cemetery property. We lease that property from the cemetery. The jail only has three sides and that's because they'd take it to the person's house whenever they broke the law. They'd take it to their home, put it up against the house and the family was responsible for feeding them and taking care of them. So hopefully the husband didn't do anything to his wife or she wouldn't feed him. So that's one of the stories because the door is here and it only has three sides. Here's a couple of timbers that we salvaged from the Culver house when it burned in 2008. You'll notice that the timbers are like 12 inches square and they're all tongue and grooved and they all have pins where they were put together with pins instead of nails. The house was built in 1854 so they didn't use many nails. It burned in the middle of the night. The gentleman that owned the house had to jump out of the second story window to get out. He and his wife and it was really a sad, a sad day. We're located at 607 Church Street in Phoenix and we're open Monday through Friday from 1 to 4. Okay, thanks for coming to visit us today and I hope you will come back and see us again. Thanks.