Heritage Canyon, Fulton IL

July 19, 2014

After lunch with Roxanne in Fulton, we then visited Heritage Canyon which is a limestone canyon dotted with buildings from the 1800's.

Swinging bridge to the nature trail.

Limestone walls in the canyon from the nature trail

The inside of the small kitchen building.  Kitchens were separate building because they would catch on fire.

The church which can be rented for weddings, but on this day, an outdoor wedding was going to take place a little later in the day.

The inside reminded me of Wayside Chapel where Dad & Chickie, Mom & Ron and Lynn & Ken all got married (as well as couple of friends).

Metal gates in all the buildings stopped from actually going inside.  The pictures are thru the gates (or windows).

 

Need to identify this little (3") bird. He was singing in the tree, but flew down to this tree branch to say "look at me singing"!  Maybe a Kentucky or Nashville Warbler (?)

Inside the printing shop shop

General store

General store

Funeral home - guess besides pine boxes they also used something similar to wicker

Pine casket, children's caskets (black one has a window to see the child) and the embalming table

Just looking at the dentist office was painful.  I should have taken a picture of the tools used.

 

Soda fountain

Horse drawn funeral hearse

Inside of the log cabin.  The bed was so tiny.

 

Tool shed for the log cabin

Covered bridge