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Paul Johnson collected 3,479 pencil sharpeners and kept them in a one-room museum-shed in his yard. He died July 2010. His shed was moved into town, remodeled, and reopened in January 2024. Now displays over 5,000 sharpeners.
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Paul A. Johnson Pencil Sharpener Museum
- Address:
- 13178 OH-664 S., Logan, OH
- Directions:
- In a little building next to the Hocking Hills Regional Welcome Center. US-33 exit onto OH-664. Turn south. Drive 100 yards. You'll see the Welcome Center ahead, on the left.
- Hours:
- M-Sa 9-5, Su 11-5 (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 740-385-9706
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
- Washington, DC - John Philip Sousa: The March King
Sousa wrote over 130 marches for schools and the military, and it was at his suggestion that the sousaphone -- the marching band tuba -- was invented.
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Congressional Cemetery
- Address:
- 1801 E St. SE, Washington, DC
- Directions:
- Walk into the cemetery at the intersection of Potomac Ave. SE and E St. SE. Walk straight in until you reach the chapel, then turn right. Sousa's grave will be about 100 feet down this path, on the left.
- Hours:
- Daylight daily; gated after hours. Office M-F 9-5. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 202-543-0539
- Davenport, Iowa - Sunday in the Park Sculptures
Full-color fiberglass versions of the people and props from the Seurat painting, "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte." Created in 2000, vandalized and removed, then restored in July 2022.
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Lower Lindsay Park
- Address:
- Mound St., Davenport, IA
- Directions:
- Lower Lindsay Park. I-74 exit 4, just north of the bridge into Illinois. Turn west onto US-67. Drive about two miles. Turn left at the stoplight onto Mound St., then bear left into the parking lot and park at its far end. You'll see the statues in the park straight ahead.
History's Skid Marks, August 15: Infamous 1880s Wild West outlaw Jesse James died this day -- in 1951! He was 103 years old (living 69 years beyond his official death). Or so it says on a tombstone in Granbury, Texas, marking the grave of J. Frank Dalton but inscribed as Jesse Woodson James. He said that he was Jesse, and that the man buried in Missouri in 1882 was an unlucky dupe, murdered so that J. Frank could start a new life. DNA tests on J. Frank's remains later debunked his story, but the town claimed that the testers dug up the wrong bones!
[RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 08/15/2021]103-Year-Old Jesse James' Grave:RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- N. Crockett St., Granbury, TX
- Directions:
- Granbury Cemetery, N. Crockett and Moore Sts.
- Hours:
- Gates open daily 6am-10pm (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 817-573-1622
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
- Buffalo Ridge, South Dakota - Buffalo Ridge Ghost Town (1880 Cowboy Town)
Temporarily closed. But still kind of fun to drive by.
[SP, 07/09/2021]Buffalo Ridge Ghost Town (1880 Cowboy Town):RoadsideAmerica.com Team Field Report
- Address:
- 46614 W. Hwy 38, Buffalo Ridge, SD
- Directions:
- Out behind the Buffalo Ridge Country Store. I-90 exit 390, then drive east a quarter-mile on Hwy 38.
- Hours:
- Hours and days vary. Call ahead. (Call to verify) Local health policies may affect hours and access.
- Phone:
- 605-528-3931
- Admission:
- Adults $8.
- RA Rates:
- The Best
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