Farm Museum Celebrates History

It was a celebration of history this weekend at the L. Dillon Farm Museum in Hedgesville.  The museum’s annual spring show featured their active sawmill and black smith shop, as well as their large collection of antique farm equipment.The event also featured an antique car and tractor show, which included the famous Norwalk, a car in Martinsburg around 1914.Jim Smith works with the Dillon Farm Museum.  He said the museum is a hidden gem in the community and that it is completely volunteer run.The L. Dillon Farm museum was established in 1974 as part of the land donated by lifelong farmer L. Norman Dillon for the high school.  Part of the conditions for the land included the creation of the museum, which Dillon decreed must always be free for the public to enjoy.The museum is open on weekends through October and holds two shows a year… the next will be in the fall.                                                                                                                           dscf2337.JPG dscf2339.JPG dscf2341.JPG dscf2342.JPG dscf2344.JPG dscf2345.JPG dscf2350.JPG dscf2352.JPG