NATHANIEL HAMLIN PARK in Audubon, Iowa, was formerly the Audubon County Home, the Museum includes early 1900s furnishings, pioneer farm machinery and antique windmills. It includes the museum, a wilderness area with two resident elk, seven acres of native timber, antique farm machinery, the world’s largest nail collection, a little red schoolhouse, and 18 antique windmills donated by local farmers.
Location: One mile south of Audubon on Hwy. 71, Audubon, Iowa 50025
Open: 1-4 Sat.-Sun., May-Sep., or by appointment
Phone: 712-563-3984
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I live in Fresno California. Nathaniel Hamlin and Peggy Poague were my great great grandparents. I went to Iowa for a family reunion sometime in the 90s and wish I’d traveled to Iowa before and since. What beautiful country.
My father was Elmer Millard Allen. Would love to know the source of his middle name “Millard.”
I have forwarded your inquiry on to the Audubon, Iowa Chamber of Commerce and requested that they contact you directly with a response.
Pat Watson, Editor
I have not visited the Nathaniel Hamlin Park, but will surely do so in the near future. My grandmother was Lorena Thomas Witham, daughter of Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Sarah Rosanna Hamlin. My grandmother was a proud member of the Daughters of Union Veterans. I would love to hear from other descendents of Nathaniel Hamlin.
My grandmother claimed to have been the first white child born in Audubon County. She grew up in Exira.