Authentic wagon display enters design phase at Prairie City’s Dewitt Museum
By Logan Bagett on Wednesday, November 8th, 2023 in Eastern/Southeast Oregon News More Top Stories
PRAIRIE CITY – Dewitt Museum in Prairie City highlights the old Sumpter Valley Railway Passenger Station that ran from 1910 until 1933. Recently, the estate of Prairie City local Delmas Raymond donated an authentic mail carrier wagon that was used at the station during its operation. Prairie City Mayor Scott Officer told KJDY’s Coffee Time listeners on Wednesday that Delmas had known about the wagon on private property and restored it in his younger years:
“The wagon was in total disrepair. He knew where the wagon was sitting, and those people let Delmas pick it up—all the hardware and everything. He took that wagon into his shop, and he rebuilt it.
He had it in some parades with his team of horses. It was that wagon.
It was the wagon that delivered freight to, and mail out from the train depot where the RV park is now.”
Officer said they are currently in the design phase of building a “period-correct shed” that would house and display the donated piece of history.
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