 The Myers Museum
This structure is new construction using reclaimed materials. It is designed to represent a livery stable and blacksmith shop of the late 1880’s. In the right corner near the door are tools of the period including the tool chest and carpenter tools of Paul Smerchek. The long wooden bench is called a schnitzelbank or shaving horse. It is basically a vise used to hold wood while it is worked with a drawknife. Also displayed are various tools and a grind stone used to sharpen knives and tools.
 Along the back wall you will see a small workbench with a “leg vise”. On the side wall we have mounted a hand operated drill press. The artifact that looks like lots of thin leather strips is a “fly shoo”. These were placed on horses to keep flies from biting.
If you look up near the center of the building you see a “hay claw”. In the days before hay baling machines every barn had one of these. They were hung from a trolley that would run the length of the building and out thru an access door. A wagon loaded with hay would park below the trolley outside the barn. The claw would be lowered, grab a quantity of hay, then be lifted and pulled to the interior of the barn where the hay would be stored. Along the north wall is a long diorama built by a Mr. Fojik. These were
donated by his son Joseph Fojik.
The buggy was found in a field near the Seven Mile Road. It was very deteriorated but was rebuilt last summer by a volunteer. This building was funded through the generosity of Royse and Barbara Myers. It was built in 2012, completed in August of that year.