Gardner Musing

Hope everyone’s week was a good one. On May 18, the Heritage Seekers Program will be presented by Sam Bross. The program will be on L.N. Bross Ancestors when they first arrived in Palmyra and the contributions, they made to help Palmyra grow. Sam will also share some of the L.N. Bross’s story of World War 2.
The program starts at 7 p.m. at the Halls Chuckwagon on 220 South Main St.
It is open to the public free of charge.
This program is open to the public and free of charge. We hope you will be able to attend.
The Gardner House Museum has a picture of a log cabin that is believed to have been the original log house owned by Louis Vanlandingham around 1819. Louis’s father Benjamin had settled in Palmyra by the Big Spring in town. Louis went a little farther out of the town area known as The Palmer and Gash settlement . He built his cabin on land later owned by Earl Meyer’s Family. It was torn down by G. F. Meyer and Floyd Meyer Earls’ brother in the
1930s. The cabin was south of Palmyra about 50 feet northwest of a spring. In the picture, Floyd is in the doorway . Earl was a lifelong citizen of Marion County who had lived in Pallmyra.
The picture is displayed along with the axe head that was used to build the first cabins in Palmyra and a leather covered dairy of Vanlandingham.
The Gardner House is open on Fridays 10 to 2 .
The Old Marion County Jail and Research Center is open on Wednesdays’ 10 to 2