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Otero MuseumPO Box 223, 3rd & Anderson Ave. La Junta, CO  81050
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U. L. Hiatt Building

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This building was erected in 1990-91.  It is named for U. L. Hiatt, a long time teacher of Industrial Arts at the La Junta High School.  Mr. Hiatt was a charter member of the Otero County Historical Society and served as its president for a number of years.


This building houses a hand loom from the Pre-Civil War era, a collection of glass, stoneware, and mustache cups, an organ from the Tabor Opera House in Leadville, artifacts from area schools, a medical display of a variety of hand instruments and a dental x-ray machine, a clock display, a business machines display, a woodworking display, a Santa Fe Railroad display, a Post Office display, a War display, an Arkansas River map with display of water artifacts, phonographs, radios, doll houses and dolls, cameras, telephone switchboard, stained glass window, antique car display, a covered wagon and a prairie schooner.

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