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In 1983, Harold Warp donated the museum to the nonprofit Harold Warp Pioneer Village Foundation. [6] After Harold Warp's death in 1994, his son Skip Warp took over, but because he managed his fathers Flex-O-Glass business and lived in Chicago, [7] he often wasn't involved with the museum's upkeep. [6] In 2011 the tax exemption on the motel and ...
Harold Warp (December 21, 1903 – April 8, 1994) was an American businessman who invented Flex-O-Glass. He also founded Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. [1] [2] [3] Harold Warp was born in a sod house on a farm near Minden, Nebraska. He was the youngest of twelve children born to an immigrant family from Norway. When he was three years old ...
The original Porter locomotives reached the end of their lives in 1948, and were sold to a collector, Cameron Peck of Chicago, and finally came to rest at the Harold Warp Pioneer Village in Minden, Nebraska. [1] They were replaced by two much larger engines, one coal and one oil-fired, originally built by Montreal Locomotive Works in 1926. The ...
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Minden is the home of the Pioneer Village, a museum complex of 28 buildings on 20 acres (81,000 m 2) with a total collection of over 50,000 items. [ 16 ] Minden bills itself as "Nebraska's Christmas City", illuminating the courthouse square with a display of over 12,000 bulbs and staging an annual Christmas pageant titled "The Light Of The World".
The Pioneer Living History Museum is located at 3901 W. Pioneer Road in Phoenix, Arizona. The museum, also known as Pioneer Village , has 30 historic original and reconstructed buildings from the 1880s and early 1900s on its 90-acre property.
Harold Warp's Pioneer Village, brass whistles, Minden, NE Jasper Sanfilippo Collection, ex Harold Shaner Collection, brass whistles with keyboard and drums, Victorian Palace, Barrington Hills, Illinois Virginia Musical Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia Chris Carlisle Collection, Missouri, from Lenny Marvin movie prop house collection, Los Angeles
Pioneer Village is a collection of over 50 historic building related to Kern County's history. The various buildings are from all around the county. There is almost one of every type of building from the time period, including: one room schoolhouse, church, photography studio, train station, hotel, courthouse, and assay office. [4]