On October 1 last year I took a little trip to get away. Went to Roman Nose State Park in Oklahoma.
When I was in high school we drove out to Roman Nose a few times. Just kids. There was a waterfall that came out of the side of a hill. Very unusual for Oklahoma. One trip I climbed up the waterfall to find a cavern behind it. Following the cavern the roof sloped down and we could only go about 50 ft before there was not enough room to breathe. The floor was sand. In the sand I found an old knife. I've got it some place unless it burned up in my shop fire.
In any event, I couldn't find the waterfall. After much searching I did find it, but in the 55 years since I had been there it had eaten back into the bank about 15 feet.
Traveling around Oklahoma that day we came across an unusual underpass under a railroad.
Anybody know where this is?
End to a marvelous day.
My son had a business associate in Iowa who had bought a car he couldn't retrieve. He talked me into buying it.
On the way we stopped in Kansas City at the Arabia Museum. The steamship Arabia hung on a snag 5 miles upstream of Kansas City on September 5, 1856 and sank after everyone got off safely. Remaining onboard was 200 tons of cargo including complete supplies for 50 hardware stores in the new Dakota Territory. The vessel sank quickly into the silt bottom with the water washing silt under it until it was out of sight. The cargo sat covered in silt over 130 years until a team of novices excavated it in a corn field far from the river in 1988.
The interesting thing about the museum is that everything in the museum is from the ship, a time capsule of September 1856. Here's a couple of shots of hardware. Remember 1856, before modern manufacturing. Of course there were dishes, foodstuffs (ketchup in bottles) and lots and lots of tools. 50 hardware stores to be initiated from the cargo.
Very well worth your time to stop at the museum. It is incredible.
Finally got to the "barn find"
