About the area |
The Museum of the Arkansas Grand Prairie has several outstanding exhibits which include many of their over 10,000 artifacts. The exhibits history of agriculture and pioneers who farmed the Grand Prairie, waterfowlers, history of rice milling, crop dusting, a mini-theatre and fish farm exhibit. The Waterfowl Wing has a collection of decoys, guns and a duck blind. An early morning duck hunt, is shown with identification of species of ducks and their calls. There are several outbuildings including the Newspaper Shop with an 1895 Freepress, a fire house with Stuttgart's first hand cranked fire truck in place, an Outhouse, a Prairie School House, a church which is a 2/3 scale replica of the Lutheran Church in town and a Prairie house. Other outstanding exhibits and displays are a one-of-a-kind "Coat of Many Feathers," an 800-year-old duck effigy pottery by Native Americans, a collection of 500 award winning game calls, carvings of Waterfowl, Market Hunter Guns and Waterfowl art. |