Another McKinley and Cars

Orrville, Ohio
Caskey's Campground

Today we visited William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum in Canton.   We've been to many Presidential Libraries and this one was very different from all the others we've toured.  While the tomb is a National Historic Monument, the Library is privately owned.

This museum has much more than presidential artifacts.  

We learned so much about Stark County.  The museum had an excellent display of actual historic streets of the county. Each business was an depiction of an actual place in the 1800's.  

Each of these exhibits had buttons to push with more audio information.

The mannequins  almost look human. 

The fire station was dated 1888.







There was a huge train exhibit showing all the towns along the route.  A docent was there to turn on the trains and tell us about them.  We both must have enjoyed that one, because neither of us took a photo.

Besides the normal stores along the street, many of these had second floor stores.

Nearly all of these furnishings are original pieces that belonged to President McKinley.

There were buttons to push which had President McKinley and his wife moving and telling stories of their life.

The original desk was President McKinley's.

His desk chair was hand carved with elephants on the arms to represent the Republican party.


The stained glass which is in the dome of the tomb has a diameter of  12 feet.  The tomb is the largest one in the United States.





I had picked the First Lady's Museum, the MAPS museum, the Hoover Museum and Classic Car Museum as alternate places to see after the library and museum.  Bill suggested we visit the Classic Car Museum.

The six dollar admission was worth every penny when Bill saw this 1937 bulletproof Studebaker.  Notice the gun ports for a tommy gun?

 
Click on these photos to enlarge the amazing information about the car.

There were 50 unique cars to see as well as collections of all kinds of things.  One of which was the rugs that covered the floors.

 Have you seen an Amphicar before?

This would be perfect for Nick Russell who is afraid to drive over bridges.  Just drive down to the water and "drive" across it.





I'll just say, the museum had an awesome collection of very unique cars.  There was a lot to see and it was displayed very well.  There was a lot more than just cars.  I highly recommend it, the next time you visit Canton, Ohio.

Luella and Ray Steiner invited us to attend a comedy play tonight, but we were too tired.  They live about a half a mile away, so we visited them for awhile before we called it a day.  It was good to see them.


Turtle Safely........