Exhibits - Plantation Agriculture Museum
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| Ascent from Slavery |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
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Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
This exhibit introduces the story of Scott Bond, an African American from Arkansas, who was born a slave and gained freedom at age 13. He worked his way to national prominence and became one of the most prosperous farmers in the state.
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| Churning Up Butter: Dairies Big and Small in Arkansas |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
Before milk was sold at every store from a refrigerated shelf, Arkansas farm families depended on their cows for milk and butter. Commercial and plantation dairies produced products for city dwellers, but the farm family milk cow continued to be a mainstay until modernization of the industry.
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| Cotton Patch (outdoor exhibition, April-September) |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
Get a close look at cotton as it grows throughout the season.
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| Cotton Pen |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
See actual an actual pen as part of the cotton exhibitry at Plantatation Agriculture Museum. Cotton pens, or cotton houses, were used to store freshly picked cotton; built with runners as a foundation, they were pulled by mules to the fields. Sharecroppers stored their cotton in pens until they had collected enough for a bale.
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| Cotton: Field to Gin |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
Exhibit explains how cotton was grown and picked using hand labor and draft animals. See artifacts including plows, cultivators, fertilizers, planters, cotton sacks and scales. Guided tours are available for individuals and families upon request, or groups of 15 or more with advance notice.
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| Dortch Cotton Gin Exhibit Building |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
See the historic Dortch Gin in our new gin exhibit facility. Learn about the ginning process, from the suction tube to the bale press. Each piece of equipment is identified and explained. Guided tours are available for individuals and families upon request, or groups of 15 or more with advance notice.
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| Early Kitchen |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
See a kitchen equipped with a wood stove, butter churn, ice box refrigerator, and other common kitchen items used in the 1920s to 1930s.
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| Mule Barn |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
This exhibit includes mule name boards, tack, shoeing equipment, and medicine closet. Learn the basics about mules and how they were used on farms and plantations.
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| Steam Powered Traction Engines and Early Tractors (outdoor exhibition) |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
Huge traction engines were more likely to have powered a thresher or a cotton gin than to have plowed fields; it was not until the 1920s that tractors began to appear on plantations and farms. The tractors on display at Plantantion Agriculture Museum illustrate the beginnings of mechanized farming.
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| The Flood of 1927 |
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Open daily Tuesday through Sunday except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. |
| Fees: |
Admission to the museum is free. |
| Self-Guided: |
Yes |
Photographs and text tell stories of the flood of 1927 in Arkansas. Heavy rains occurred during January 1927, and on April 20 the Arkansas River crested 11 feet above the flood stages at 34.4 feet. Steamboats passed over what had been farms and fields, rescuing people from rooftops and trees.
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- Contact Information
- P.O. Box 87
Scott, AR 72142
- Email: plantationagrimuseum@arkansas.com)
- 501-961-1409
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