• Before motorized planting machines, horse drawn corn planters like this Hayes Planter were popular farm implements.

  • The Oliver Plow was the standard horse-drawn plow of the period.

  • The Wedgwood design was named after Queen Charlotte of England, wife of King George III. This portrait was by the painter Thomas Gainsborough.

  • Queensware was the American version of Queen’s Ware, the Wedgwood Pottery dish design which was overwhelmingly popular throughout the 1800s.

  • This vintage postcard image shows downtown Fredericktown in 1908, looking south toward the square, which was at that time populated by a water tower.

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