Other Structures
There is a small log cabin at the Heritage Center. It was built about 1870 on the North Canadian River near Shawnee, Oklahoma. It was abandoned since 1937 after having sustained damage in a hail storm. John Fried donated and moved the structure to Muleshoe. It consists of eleven thousand pounds of oak. It was disassembled and rebuilt at the Heritage Center site. Fried was told that at one time a family of two adults and thirteen children lived in the one-room structure. The Heritage Foundation restored the cabin to its original likeness, raised the roof, and added a sleeping loft. The building is called Muleshoe’s ‘’Little House on the Prairie’’, a reference to the former Michael Landon NBC Western television series.
On the grounds are a granary, a windmill, railroad pump house, street light, and Wells Fargo wagon, which was used to carry freight at the old Santa Fe Depot in Muleshoe and the site of the National Mule Memorial.
A large muleshoe is located at the entrance to the Heritage Center, an Eagle Scout project for teenager Kermit Price. The muleshoe was requested by R.A. Bradley, past president of the Heritage Center Foundation. It is twenty-two feet high and seventeen feet wide at its widest point. It was built in two parts and welded together upright because it weighs some fifteen thousand pounds. The muleshoe was dedicated in 1994.
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