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The Brown County Historical Museum Museum consists of five buildings that
have been faithfully preserved and relocated to our museum in beautiful down
town Nashville, Indiana.
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The Log Jail
At a cost of $1500, the two-story log jail was built in 1879. Designed with two
walls spaced one foot apart and one entrance consisting of three doors (one
door required a key that was ten inches long). The last prisoner to be kept here
was in 1919.
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The Dog Trot Barn
The Dog Trot Building (once a barn) consists of a pair of two-story structures, connected
by their second stories covering an open area. Spinning and weaving are
demonstrated in the East or Loom Room and the West Room houses a gift shop.
Upstairs are housed several exhibits depicting local community life from
days past. Home, church, school and trades
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The Doctor's Office
Built in 1898, the country doctor's office belonged to Dr. Alfred J.
Ralphy and was located in New Bellsville, in southeastern Brown County.
The office has been kept just the way it was the day Dr. Ralphy left for
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The
Log Cabin
has been accurately restored and contains exhibits of domestic
life from our pioneer period.
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Drawings by Kenneth J. Reeve
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The Blacksmith's Shop
is typical of a local shop of the
1850s. The proprietor
is a working blacksmith and farrier. |
Coming soon will be a Woodworkers Shop of the 1830 -1850 period.
Wares from the woodworker and blacksmith are for sale in the Gift Shop.
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