West Overton Museums presents exhibit on Industrial Revolution
John Lloyd Shallenberger was one of the lucky ones among the 19th-century laborers at West Overton. In about 1860, when the founding Overholt family purchased a Buckeye Mower and Reaper machine, workers such as Shallenberger no longer were needed to harvest grain crops with hand tools for the family’s mill
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