Discover, Imagine, Experience History

Image of the WW&H Exchange building.

WW&H Exchange Building

Tour over ten permanent exhibits in our WW&H Exchange building.

From a vast collection of Hallmark Christmas collectibles to a 1950s kitchen, a jewelry store to the adventures of early pioneers, railroads to a scaled plantation mansion, and toys to an early professional photography studio, history is on full display here.

Hallmark Christmas collectibles.

Entrance Hallway

  • Hallmark Christmas Ornament collection created and donated by native Clinton artist Linda Sickman

  • Sewing thimble collection donated by Helen Long

1950s era blonde bedroom furniture.

Bedroom circa 1950s

  • Blonde furniture, dresser with mirror, chest of drawers, headboard with hidden compartments

  • Chenille bedspread

  • Royal Dalton and Dresden figurines collection

Doll collection.

Children’s Toys

  • Board games: Chess, Man from Uncle, Password, Yatzee

  • Cast iron wood stove

  • Chinkerchec board game (created in Clinton)

  • Doll collection

  • Tinker Toys

  • Toy blocks

  • ViewMasters, slide disks

  • Vintage spring rocking horses

  • Wood and steel sled

  • Lincoln Logs

  • Mickey Mouse MovieJector

  • Pedal toys: car, firetruck, tractor

  • Stamped metal stove and refrigerator

Keil’s Jewelry Store circa 1870 to 2005

Keirs Jewelry.

  • Engraving tools

  • Fine china and glassware

  • Pewter figurine collection

  • Jewelry collection

  • Jeweler’s workbench, watch parts, and tools

  • Traveling jeweler’s scales

Pink stove.

Kitchen circa 1950s

  • American Kitchen metal cabinets (lower)

  • Youngstown Kitchen metal cabinets (upper) by Mullins Mfg Co in Salem, Massachusetts

  • Copper kettle collection

  • Dinner plates and cookware

  • General Electric pink stove with double oven

  • General Electric pink refrigerator with bottom freezer

  • General Electric vacuum

  • Kitchen dining set with laminate tabletop and chairs with tubular legs

  • Kitchen chair & step stool

1950s living room.

Living Room circa 1950s

  • Ashtrays

  • Blonde furniture

  • Book of Knowledge encyclopedias

  • Couch, chairs, side tables, coffee table, desk

  • Midland solid state AM transiter radio

  • Motorola stereo

  • Muntz portable black & white TV with rabbit ears antennae

  • Rotary telephone

  • Smith-Carona typewriter

1900s era portable camera.

Photography Studio circa 1900s

  • Backdrop and screen, props

  • Elegant Universal potbelly stove

  • Ellsworth Mark’s studio camera (Eastman Kodak,  circa 1906)

  • Elwood Photographic Enlarger for large prints

  • Portable camera (photos of the Square from courthouse tower)

  • Studio light

  • Wall telephone

Plantation model home.

Plantation Model House

  • Scaled model of a plantation mansion

  • Detailed room decor and furnishings

  • Figures in period dress

  • Fireplaces, room lighting

  • Landscaping features: bushes, flowers, rock formations, trees

Ragland's scaled wagon and steers.

Ragland Family Pioneer History

  • Civil War story

  • Ragland family tree and history

  • Gold Rush in Calfornia

Railroad wall mural.

Railroad Exhibit

  • Ballast rake

  • Conductors hat

  • Henry County railway station photographs

  • Large railroad and depot murals by Richard Brooks

  • Railway lantern

  • Railway two-wheel cart

  • Section of railroad tracks and spikes

  • Scaled model of the Katy depot in Clinton

  • Trunks

Visit Our Other Historic Properties and See Thousands of Artifacts

Select a building to discover what is inside.

Adair Annex and Museum Welcome Center.ade.
Image of the Anheuser-Busch building.
Dorman House.
Dog-trot log house.
One-room schoolhouse with the US flag.