The Sutton Museum is the home of the Sutton Historical Society and is dedicated to the collection and preservation of historic artifacts and information about the Sutton, Nebraska community.
When the Sutton American Legion Post built its new building in 1970, it included a wall of bricks recognizing local vets. This was the application to be included.
I was mildly surprised the first time I was in the Legion building on a visit back to Sutton and found that my parents had put a brick up for me - on the right edge in the corner, about eye level, if you're the right height.
Carl Unterseher was born on a farm near Sutton in 1909, graduated in the Sutton Class of 1926.
He did some traveling, learned a skill, and operated his shop in Harvard for many, many years.
Carl's photo and story in the July 6, 1995 issue of The Clay County News generate a feeling that you would have like to sit with him a while and just listen.
Francis Miller was the long-time owner-operator of the Coast-to-Coast store on the west side of the south end of downtown. The store operated until the mid-2000'sies.
Ever heard of "The Basket Store?" There were dozens of them apparently headquartered in Lincoln with many in Omaha and numbered up to 92 in St. Joseph.
The county paper did a story on the round barns in the area in 1970.
This round barn on the Reuben Sell farm east of Sutton was featured in Nebraska History magazine along with other Clay County round barns. Clay and Lancaster Counties each had four round barns, more than any other Nebraska counties.
There were a total of 36 round barns in the state. In the upper left here is the best preserved Clay County round barn in 1970. It was on the Dana Gail Schliep farm a mile south of Fairfield and was in use. The barn in the upper right was on the Earl Fate farm southwest of Clay Center. It was believed to have been built in 1914 by H. M. Graham. The barn at the lower left was located three miles east of Edgar and was built in 1910.
The fourth barn in this collage is clearly not round but it made the cut for the article as a brick barn, solid brick. Not a usual thing.
The article accompanying the photo of the four barns on June 25, 1970 goes into detail about these barns.
The headline in the article is was kind of an unfortunate sign of the times, or something.
