When European settlers hit the great plains of North America in the last part of the 1800s they found a challenging environment with prairie fires, sudden storms, temperatures ranges from over 100 degrees Farenheit to fifty below, and almost no trees or stone to build houses with, only grassland as far as the eye could see. From that grassland we get a unique form of earthen building called the Soddie. It's made almost entirely from blocks of sod.--dirt held together by the dense roots of the tallgrass.
You may remember a couple years back we stopped and looked in the windows of a replica Soddie we stumbled on in Gothenberg Nebraska https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMoLzYzA4G0 During the Uncle Mud Plains and Mountains 2020 Tour we got to take a much closer look.
The Edwards County Historical Society Museum in Kinsley, Kansas was closed when we passed through, but Julie wrangled us a special tour of their sod house and a good part of their amazing collection of Americana. This soddie was the originally built to hold the Edwards County Historical Society Museum in 1957. Since then, the Museum has grown and the soddie has been enclosed in a larger building to protect it and house the larger collection.
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Meeting Julie Ackerman
1:35 A Collection of Small Pitchers
3:10 Book Recommendation: True Sod
4:30 Soddie Exterior & Construction Tools
6:45 The Story Behind the Soddie
7:00 Soddie Interior
15:50 Exterior & Roof
17:12 Barbed Wire Collection
17:55 Santa Fe Trail Ruts
18:45 Geology Collection
19:52 Farm Tools
20:07 The Wet & Dry Route
20:50 Wagons & More Farm Tools
22:00 Thank You Julie
22:55 Cattle Brands
23:25 Blacksmithing Tool Collection
23:55 Extended Tool Collection
24:30 1918 Ford Model T
25:35 Advertising Curtains
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