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Elder James Thomas Coats, Founder of the Town of Coats.
Permanent display reflecting the lifestyle of the year 1905, the town's charter date.
Permanent Display - 1905 table setting.
Museum guests Cathy Johnson and Dr. Ronnie Faulkner talked with museum hostess Gayle Sorrell about the Elected
Official exhibit.
Coats Heritage Square signs were made possible through collaborative efforts of the Coats Kiwanis Club and Coats
Museum.
H.L. Sorrell, Jr. presenting a check to Lynda Butler, Coats Museum treasurer, to help establish the Coats Museum
Endowment Fund.
Coats Lions Club contributing $2,500 to help establish the Coats Museum Endowment Fund.
Researcher utilized the museum's Stone family's genealogical records.
Coats High School class reunions (the decade of the 40's pictured) were held at the museum.
Christmas of Yesteryear, 2000 Exhibit.
Boy Scouts Open House, 2001.
Girl Scouts cooking in a cardboard box during Open House.
The museum hosting a county-wide 4-H Exhibit.
Native American Exhibit, 2001.
Native American participants from the Turtle clan.
Spectators enjoying the dance performed during the Native American event.
Native American Exhibit.
Native American Exhibit.
Many local families shared their vintage household treasures.
Founder's wife, Isabella T. Coats, made the dress worn by the mannequin.
Early Twentieth Century Household Items & Archival Collections Exhibit, 2008.
Early Twentieth Century child's household chore, churning butter.
Pictures of bygone homes and businesses.
Nineteenth Century ricer hewn from a log on the Ben Dixon homesite. Rice was grown on the wetlands area
of the farm.
Vintage Cars Exhibit in 2001.
Vintage Cars Exhibit in 2001.
Kiwanis Club members Patsy Avery and Betty Manning and museum committee members Hilda Pope and Christine Parrish
distributed treats from the museum in the Heritage Square's 2006 Holloween celebration.
Joyce Turner, great-granddaughter of the late founder, Elder James Thomas Coats, and Frances Matthews participated
in the Vintage Hats Exhibit.
Dr. Ronnie Faulkner talked with young artist Trevor Johnson.
Juanita Hudson, museum volunteer, and Pat Godwin, Coats Chamber of Commerce president, enjoyed donning their
hats.
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