2010 Riverside Ave.
P.O. Box 461
Paso Robles, CA
93447
Open Thurs. - Sun.
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
805 239-4556
A walk down a ramp takes one to another wing
of the museum that houses vehicles,
carriages, a gas pump, barbed wire
and a blacksmith shop.
There is an extensive display of transportation used across the years. Some of the vehicles and carriages are still used in the Paso Robles Pioneer Day parade held each October.
Paso Robles High School student,
Harrison Honerkamp, recently
restored this gas pump as part of
his Eagle Scout project.
Carriages and wagons were used to transport everything from people to mail to corpses to farm products.
One long wall is filled with 898 different kinds of
barbed wire collected over the years by the late
Swift Jewell. Different manufacturers and eras of
wire show its development through the years.
On the museum grounds outside the main building,
the Geneseo schoolhouse, donated to the
museum by the family of the late Linden Chandler
in 2004, shows a typical classroom where children
learned readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic to the tune
of a hickory stick.
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