ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times

DATE: Saturday, December 16, 1995            TAG: 9512180009
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-9 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
DATELINE: ROANOKE

HORSE EQUIPMENT SOUGHT FOR EXHIBIT

Carriages, sleighs, buggies and other horse-drawn vehicles are being sought by the Virginia Museum of Transportation for its upcoming exhibition "Harness, Hoofbeats and Silver Bells."

The exhibition is a study of the great american carriage era as a product of and a contributor to the height of America's industrialization and the coming of the Gilded Age. The exhibit will be on display from Jan. 6 to March 1.

The museum is seeking to lend any restored horse-drawn vehicle from the 1850s to the 1930s, along with any publications, artifacts or equipment relating to American carriage manufacture, craftsmanship or travel. Farm equipment will not be included in the exhibit.

The museum has particular interest in obtaining information on the following local carriage companies that operated in the Roanoke area in the late 1800s at the following locations:

R.D. Cardwell, Luck Avevenue corner of Roanoke Sreet; Noell Wertz & Co., Robertson Avenue, west of Jefferson Street.; William H. Startzman, Commerce Street, north of Church Avenue;

E.W. Sykes, Salem Avenue, west of Roanoke Street; John W. Witt, Robertson Avenue, west of Jefferson Street; Karman Huff, Salem Avenue, west of Henry Street.

For more information on the exhibit, call Elizabeth Bishop Hurd at 342-5670.

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