This museum maintains two buildings plus a large outdoor display of oil field equipment which dates from the early 1900s during the boom days of oil discovery in Crawford County.
Location:
Hwy 33, Oblong Illinois 62449
Telephone
618-592-3431
Other History nearby:
(Marshall) Clark County Museum
(Terre Haute) Eugene V. Debs Home
(Vincennes) Grouseland
(Terre Haute) Historical Museum of the Wabash Valley
(Shelbyville) Horace Tallman Home
(Vincennes) Indiana Military Museum
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02/21 Coming to The Oblong area
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