Farm & Ranch Museum in Las Cruces, NM

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The Farm & Ranch Museum was recommended so we decided to go.

This fully restored buckboard was at the entrance.  Pretty neat!

There is a huge outdoor display of machinery and animals.

Here are a few of the black angus on display.

And here are a few long horns.  They are still young based on the size of the horns.

This acorn fan was in the horse barn.  As I looked at the pictures we took, we did not take any pictures of the horses on of the fan in the horse barn.  Connected to the horse barn was a room that displayed the art of saddle making.  It was interesting also.

The pictures above and below are large areas of various old farm equipment.

The photo below is a manure spreader or also known as inspiration for a political speech.

Inside the big museum was a lot of original equipment and many many pictures.

Above and below are a couple of restored carriages.  Aren't they beautiful?

Here are some more restored buckboard wagons.

This stage coach was completely restored.  Lots of great history in here.

Look at the detail carved in this sconce.  And the vase.  Both are so beautiful and so old.

This is an example of a general store in the early 1900's.  It looks very similar to the one we saw in Chloride, NM and forgot to take pictures of.

This is some of the hand tools that would have been in the general store.

This is a pictureof the cowhands at the chuck-wagon out in the plains.

We found the museum very interesting.  We were glad we went.  It was not free admission, but military were free and seniors were $3.