Museum of Measurement & Time — Attraction in Jefferson

This is the greatest most magical museum experience I have ever had in my entire life. Mr. Ingram has collected countless treasures but he is a unique treasure among all the people I've ever met and I'm so grateful I stopped in and had the opportunity for him to share some of his knowledge with me. It's hard to explain what this museum even is - there's hundreds and hundreds of antique (mostly American) clocks, but there's also every kind of surveying equipment, chronometer, compass, barometer, calculator, and adding machine. Lots of incredible old maps. On his extensive travels, if he thought something was neat, he would get it. A pile of newspapers from the 40s, a collection of hundreds of bus tokens, a history of nails with examples, a giant hornet nest. Everywhere you look there is something new to see. There is also a room with old hand-cranked record players, phonograph players, a hand organ, a music box that plays "records." He knows everything about all of them and will gladly tell you and give a demonstration. There are old hand-cranked telephones, old computers, a collection of old cell phones, travel brochures. He even had the model of the first cell phone I ever had, a big old brick. So many memories came flooding back when I picked it up and pulled out the antenna. His wife's salt and pepper collection was also fabulous. He's got many informative blurbs typed up so you can understand the significance of what you're looking at. He's also got a table set up with books bound of pictures from his travels with his lovely wife he loved so very much. He likes to write poetry and there are stacks of poems he's printed out which you can take, including poems he wrote about his love for his wife and her struggles with dementia. I will keep them forever. I am going to tell everyone about this place and I encourage you to go see it while Mr Ingram is here to share his knowledge with us. He and his wife who recently passed set this place up and run it out of their own pocket, just because they wanted to share it with people. Thank you...

An incredible place with a huge collection of clocks, computers, and measuring devices that transcend time and measurement. The jewel of a man here, who is a civil engineer, has a profound understanding and love of time and people and will warm your heart with his story and his love of the historical adding machine and the history and value of the human lesson through to the current computers and calculators. Not just these machines, but the historical plumb bobs, sextant, and lesson of the historical, human understanding of geography and how it has transitioned in the last 200 or so years with computers. Not to mention the most incredible collection of salt and pepper shakers you...

We stopped in here because my dad was a surveyor and my father-in-law was a mathematician. We also had to kill time and walk off the portejas from Enoch's before driving home. One could walk around and see what looks like a pawn shop or estate sale, but take plenty of time to talk to the guy running it! It was a slow day, so I think I spent a good uninterrupted hour or more talking about slide rulers, adding machines, survey equipment, and technology from wind up phonographs that he will demonstrate, to the progress of computers and telephones. His wife (she has dementia) also collects beautiful clocks and salt and pepper shakers. Ask plenty of questions and bring a few...