Acquisition and progress on the property for the New Museum
Clearing of the land began in June
Land was officially acquired on July 19th
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Acquisition and progress on the property for the New Museum Clearing of the land began in June Land was officially acquired on July 19th
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| Signing the land purchase agreement. | Done deal! Brent Davis, John Walker & Wayne Ladd. |
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| Filling in the low spot at the field entrance with our AMG M-929 dump truck, Brutus. | Several loads of gravel later, it's starting to look better. |
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| Clearing all the brush near the new entrance off of State Road 218 - June23rd | Making progress. |
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| Our expert heavy equipment operator, Gary Moline. June 28th | |
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| June 28th | June 29th |
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| View from State Road 218 - July 3rd | July 3rd. |
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| You can see the Chrysler Dealership across the road! | Picking up the culvert for the new driveway - July 11th |
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| Norm Truax clearing brush. - July 18th | Making our way to where the entrance will be off 218. - July 18th |
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| Our first official work day on the new property. JULY 28TH 2018 | |
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| Jon and Tom Schmidt moving trees and Jody Burnau cutting them up. | Norm Truax clearing brush. |
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| Ryan Long hauls a load of brush that was removed from the Hwy 31 fence. | Team Work makes the Dream Work!! |
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| Ron Baber & his Dad, Rick Baber, cutting and stacking wood. | Katie Baber & Tyler Freeman |
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| Gary Moline showing off his driving skills. | |
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| John Walker & Gary Moline. | Tom Schmidt & Tyler |
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| Drew Boles, his son Jaxson and nephew Dylan all come out to help clear brush & trees. | |
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| Norm Truax pushes over another dead tree. | |
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| Unpacking the new highway sign. | Panel number one. |
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| Panel number four. | The new sign is up!! We are done for the day! July 28th, 2018 |
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| September 6 - Tons of gravel being delivered. | September 6 - Installinng 60 foot of 24 inch culvert under the driveway entrance. |
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| October 24 - still burning. Finally got our paperwork from the state. Now the fence can come down. | |
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| October 24 | October 24 |
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| October 26 | October 26 |
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| October 26 - Thank you Miami County Trucking and John Deluca for delivering gravel. | October 26 |
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| October 29 - Norm Truax picked up the compactor and bobcat from Sunbelt Equipment, Kokomo.. | October 29 |
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| October 29 - To date we have received 61 triaxles of stone from West Plains Mining in Wabash. | October 30 - And we have a driveway! |
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| October 31 - Sunbelt brought the BIG compactor. | Thank You Sunbelt!! |
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| Having the right equipment for the job is priceless! | October 31 - The drive looks great!! |
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| November 20 - This stake marks the Helipad location. Thank You Tori Tripp & Greg Deeds!! | Peru Utilities installed the temp. service for the flagpoles. |
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| Thank You Peru Utilities!! | November 20 - Holes are dug for the flagpoles. Waiting for concrete. |
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| December 10th - Setting the metal forms for the flagpoles. | Brady Saylors Concrete and Excavating crew. Thank You gentlemen!! |
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| A big thank you to Irving Materials Inc. (IMI) for delivering several yards of concrete. | |
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| Ready for the flagpoles! | |
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| Dale Callaway (yellow slicker) helps Brady Saylor and his crew unload the new flag poles. | |
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