Inman Farm Heritage Days
4th Annual--Sept. 15, 16, 17, 2000
on Hill's Bridge Road, off Hwy 92 South
in Fayette County, Georgia
Darryl Coleman's 1920 Aultman-Taylor steam traction engine--on display at Inman Farm Heritage Days
The 1999 show welcomed 12,000 visitors to our community. Now we are expanding the project beyond the weekend festival to a year-round project and exhibit. At this time there are plans to include an authentic 1800s log cabin such as our founding community members would have lived in, a replica of the of Liberty Chapel Methodist church, and other community buildings.
If you would like to exhibit or to camp on-site, please contact Rick and Joanne Minter at 283 Hill's Bridge Road, Fayetteville, GA 30215, phone 770-461-2840. E-mail the Minters at InmanFarm@aol.com . There will also be a great need for volunteers to help reproduce the old buildings during the year, feed the people constructing the buildings, and handle the crowds during the weekend tractor show.
Inman United Methodist Church will holds a brush-arbor style outdoor service on Sunday morning at the Inman Farm Heritage Days. We worship as our ancestors did with music, prayer, and scripture on the land where our founders established the community church.
Contact www. InmanFarm.com (bad link)
2024 link to Inman Farm, now Minter's Farm. And they still hold the annual Inman Farm Heritage Days.
Search engine link to pictures from multiple years of the Inman Farm Heritage Days event.
Food is served for lunch and dinner. Main Food Booth run by Inman United Methodist Church.
Local lodging available. These are suggestions--not endorsements! All of these sites are located near to Hwy 92. Fayetteville is North of Inman. Griffin is South of Inman. All of these locations are within 20 minutes of Inman.
FAYETTEVILLE--Holiday Inn, 770-461-5600
GRIFFIN--Holiday Inn, 770-227-1516; Days Inn, 770-229-9797; Best Western, 770-227-8400; Ramada, 770-228-9799
--photo of Rick, Jim, and Stephanie Minter--3 generations. Sept. 1998
Exhibitors and visitors are invited and admission is Free. Camping is available. Bring your tractors or antique engines or just come and have a wonderful time as you learn about the men and equipment of our farm heritage days. Visit the Local History Booth and share information about early settlers.
Whatever your favorite tractor brand is...... you are sure to see one at the tractor parade. Allis-Chalmers, J.I. Case, John Deere, Ford, International Harvester, Massey Ferguson, Minneapolis Moline, Oliver, Silver King and more will be represented. In addition we will have a 1917 Aultman/Taylor steam traction engine. This 20,000 pound monster tractor looks and sounds like a steam locomotive and is quite a site to behold as it circles the parade route belching black smoke while the whistle screams its presence to onlookers.
We are expecting special guests from all over the Southeast as we are also the host site for the Oliver Collectors show.
The show is presented by the Inman Pioneer Power Association, the Georgia Antique Engine Club, The West GA Two-Cylinder Club, The North GA Two-Cylinder Club, and Inman United Methodist Church.
My Tractor
by: John McLucas Jr. (age 14)
--1998 photo John McLucas Sr. & Jr. with featured tractor
I have the best tractor in the world. Sure, some people would rather hear the sweet sound of an old 2-Cylinder John Deere or have a nice old Farmall, but I would much rather have my tractor.
Do you know how the old saying goes that its not what’s on the outside, but what’s on the inside? Well, my tractor is a little bit like that. It has good looks, but that doesn’t compare to the story that goes along with it. Now don’t get too excited. This is not one of those stories that gets published in a book, but I think you might like it.
My grandfather, Bill McLucas, bought the 1950 Minneapolis Moline Model ZAU for farming in 1951. It was a great tractor that got the job done. Papa used the tractor to pull a Minneapolis Moline five disc wheatland plow, a smoothing harrow, a grain drill, and a Model 68 combine. The years passed and he kept farming with it until he got to be an old man. Then, my Father and my Uncle would use the tractor for plowing the garden and mowing the pasture. The tractor grew old and rusty. After my grandfather passed away the tractor sat at my house until one day my father decided he would give the tractor to me. I was so excited.
A couple years later our cousin, Rick Minter, finished restoring an Allis Chalmers C with the help of his daughter, Stephanie, and a good friend, Brian Koher. I thought that tractor looked so good, and I think my father liked it too. After that Rick Minter said, “Why don’t we get that Minneapolis Moline from your house and restore it?” Sure enough, after a little work on the carburetor the tractor cranked and was driven up on Rick’s trailer and was on its way to being restored. Later the tractor was moved to Mr. Dale Duncan's house. He is a good friend of ours. I watched and helped my Dad sand blast away at the old tractor. That night, the tractor was primed. Months later we started working on the “Modern Machine” again. Mr. Dale fixed the sheet metal and repaired some old bent up fenders and a seat that we bought in Iowa. Finally it was ready to paint. Mr. Dale Duncan did the most beautiful paint job that I have ever seen. The hood, fenders and gas tank were as smooth and shiny as the sheet metal on a new car. My Uncle Bill completely rewired the tractor with brand new wires and gauges. Finally, after many stressful hours, the tractor was filled with new parts and running clean as a whistle.
The tractor was finished just in time for the First Inman Farm Heritage Days show. I am proud of my tractor. It is a piece of my grandfather that is still with me. That is the part of my tractor that is on the inside and does not show to the many admirers. My tractor could not be sold for the world.
(this appeared on the program of the 1998 Inman Farm Heritage Days)
