Eldorado Museum

05/09/2026

These beautiful items are for sale at the museum. We close at 4:00. Please support your museum.

05/05/2026

If you are looking for a Mother's Day gift, we have these gifts for sale at the Museum. Come in on Saturday to purchase a 3-tiered snack plate for $25.00 or a tea cup with a succulent plant for $10.00.

05/03/2026

Employees of the Nuway Mercantile. Lots of familiar faces. Bob Wettaw in the lower picture in the Grocery store. Can anyone name others?

05/02/2026

As we come to the end of our annual 2nd grade tea parties, we would like to thank our volunteers who show up and work hard to make the parties a success. First up is Brenda
Fowler Cook. She drives from Evansville to share her expertise and energy every Saturday and for the tea parties. She makes sure the tea is just right as well as making extra gallons as needed. Sally Bassinger helps with all 4 sessions and supplies any needed items. Karen Foster does anything and everything that is needed and with a smile. Other wonderful volunteers stack cookies. pour tea, keep the creamers and sugar bowls filled, clear up the tables when the children are finished, and reset the tables with clean linens and china for the next class, and help with the tour of the museum. Those helpers were Susanne Scott, Emily Bartok, Anita Neonen, Mussette Reed, Tiffany Turner, Morgan Doggett, Kristan Parks, and Patty Rexing. The kitchen "angels", Vicki Sullivan and Sharon Roberts, show up both days and clean china cups and saucers, silver teaspoons, cookie plates, creamers, and cookies trays. Our cookies were donated by Ferrell Hospital cafeteria and Lennie Upchurch. Thank you so much. Each 2nd grader took home an Old City Hall Museum bookmark made by Marlene February. Thank you, too.
As you can see, it takes many volunteers for the tea party but we also had the 3rd graders engage in a program about
pioneer schools and the 4th graders came to learn more about Presidents and First Ladies and the President of the United States who visited Eldorado.
IF YOU HAVEN'T VISITED THE MUSEUM IN THE LAST 15 YEARS OR EVER, COME AND SEE WHAT YOU CAN FIND OUT ABOUT ELDORADO. IT'S FREE. SATURDAY 1-4pm.

04/27/2026

100 years ago the population of Eldorado was 6,500.

04/13/2026

Welcome to the Ghost town of Tybo Nevada located here in our County. Tybo is a Shoshone word that means white man's district. It boomed in 1870 with lead silver and gold but by the 1880s it started to decline and a mysterious fire wiped out 32 buildings in 1884 and put an end to Tybo. It had a Resurgence in the 1930s but by 1937 it was all over with again. Making Tybo one of Nevada's hundreds of ghost towns. Thank you for reading have a great day😀

03/27/2026

Do you remember this gas station and store?

03/21/2026

The museum is open tomorrow, Saturday, March 21 from 1-4 pm.
We are a not-for-profit volunteer group working to preserve local history and to provide a place where history can come alive. Join us and have a great experience. We are a 501c3 so we don't charge any admission. See you tomorrow!

03/21/2026

03/13/2026

The Old City Hall Museum will open tomorrow Saturday, March 14 1-4pm

03/13/2026

Two Old Friends Stood Before the 4077th Exhibit — And Hawkeye Began to Cry

Time is a ruthless thief.

Decades after M*A*S*H ended, the Smithsonian created a special exhibit of the famous Swamp tent.

Inside the glass case, everything looked exactly the same.

Hawkeye’s loud Hawaiian shirt.
B.J.’s pink button-down.
The homemade gin still.

Time inside that glass had stopped.

One quiet afternoon, two elderly men walked slowly into the museum.

Most visitors passed them without a second look.

They didn’t realize they were standing beside Alan Alda and Mike Farrell.

Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt.

The two men stopped in front of the display.

For a long time… neither of them spoke.

Alan slowly lifted his hand and touched the cold glass.

Parkinson’s made his fingers tremble.

Inside the case, the clothes were still young.

But outside…

so many of their friends were gone.

Wayne Rogers.

Harry Morgan.

Larry Linville.

Others from the 4077th who had once filled that tent with laughter.

Alan stared quietly at the empty uniforms.

His voice barely a whisper.

“Beej… do you see it?”

“They’re still in there.”

“They’re still young.”

“I swear I can almost hear them laughing.”

Mike Farrell stepped closer.

He gently placed his hand over Alan’s trembling one and held it steady against the glass.

Just like B.J. had always steadied Hawkeye during the hardest moments of the war.

“They never left, Hawk,” Mike said softly.

“Maybe… it’s just our turn to go home.”

For a moment, the museum felt very quiet.

Two old friends standing together.

Outside the glass, time had moved on.

But inside that little tent…

the laughter of the 4077th would always remain young.