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Walking Plow owned by Joshua Lyles

Maker: Brinly-Hardy Company and Gift of the Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corporationafter 1915

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, D.C., United States

Lyles Station was founded in the mid-19th century as part of a migratory movement of thousands of African Americans from the upper South to the Old Northwest Territory states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, to stake their claim to land, territory, and freedom. The Lyles family used this original 19th C. plow on their farmland.

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  • Title: Walking Plow owned by Joshua Lyles
  • Creator: Maker: Brinly-Hardy Company, Gift of the Lyles Station Historic Preservation Corporation
  • Date Created: after 1915
  • Physical Dimensions: H x W x D (2012.155.11.1 plow): 10 1/4 x 30 x 65 in. (26 x 76.2 x 165.1 cm) H x W x D (2012.155.11.2 horseshoe): 7/8 × 5 11/16 × 6 1/8 in. (2.2 × 14.5 × 15.5 cm)
  • Subject Keywords: Object ID: 2012.155.11.1-.2, Collection of Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Plow
  • Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
  • External Link: View this in the Smithsonian's Collections Search Center, View other objects related to Lyles Station in the NMAAHC Collection
  • Medium: steel, wood
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

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