Staycation Directory

Charlie the caretaker roars out on his ATV to greet us. The West Virginia State Farm Museum normally isn’t open on Mondays, but we’ve called ahead and the management has generously offered to have Charlie show us around.

The museum spreads across 50 acres and has 36 buildings, including a log cabin, an old schoolhouse, a doctor’s office, blacksmith shop, post office, and barbershop. There are displays of threshing machines, cultivators, tractors, carriages, sewing machines, tools, bottle and jars. All of which, frankly, are not that interesting unless you’re into the history of American farming.

General, World’s Largest Stuffed Horse.
General, World’s Largest Stuffed Horse.

Charlie, sensing our disappointment, offers some suggestions.

“There’s a lot of stuff here that you won’t see anywhere else,” he insists. He mentions an old Lutheran church building, supposedly the first one west of the Allegheny Mountains “and the only church with a gun rack in it.” Charlie also tells us of a clothes dryer from the 1700s, “the oldest one in existence.” That sounds promising. “Does it have a sign, saying that?” we ask. Well, Charlie answers, no.

There are, however, items of merit here, and Charlie is happy to lead us to them. For example, tucked away in a small stable by the rest rooms, is the World’s Largest Stuffed Horse.

West Virginia State Farm Museum

Address:
1458 Fairground Road, Point Pleasant, WV
Directions:
4 miles north of town on Hwy 62, then about a mile east on Fairgrounds Rd./Wadsworth Rd.
Hours:
Tu-Sa 9 am – 5 pm. (Call to verify)
Phone:
304-675-5737

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