It's probably the largest collection of International Harvester farm equipment and memorabilia, and there is a replica of a 1940s International Harvester dealership.
The museum’s collection includes the oldest Farmall tractor ever built from 1923, which has been fully restored. It was the 106th one ever made in a line of 200, all built by hand.
“We also have the Garrett tractor, which is the only one in the world. It’s an International Harvester designed to haul logs out of the woods,” Paquette explains. “And we have the Travelall, which is like a big long station wagon with up to six or eight doors on the side. I got a 1972 one out of Boston with only 41,000 miles on it. It was like brand new.”
Two tractors in Paquette’s prized collection of eight from the rare International Harvester gold series that came out in 1970 are the only ones of their kind.
“They both came on a trailer to Louisiana from an International plant in Chicago,” Paquette says. “One was for sugar cane and one was for rice.”
The International Harvester Co. was a U.S. manufacturer of agricultural machinery, construction equipment, trucks, and household and commercial products. In 1902, J.P. Morgan merged the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. and Deering Harvester Co., along with three smaller agricultural equipment firms, to form International Harvester
neat place.
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