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Rod Miller holds an old creamery hand tool called a butter pound maker, just one of over 10,000 antique tools in his collection. According to Miller, his tool collection consists of numerous automotive type tools, as well as bits and pieces from all walks of life. “If there’s anything rare and ugly, I gotta have it,” said Miller. Miller’s tool collection will go into the new building being constructed by the Big Valley Historical Society. ECA Review/D. Johnstone
Construction for new museum underway Construction of a new museum is well under way in the Village of Big Valley. The catalyst for the new construction came when Rod Miller, a member of The Big Valley Historical Society (BVHS), offered to donate his extensive antique tool collection to the society as a legacy on the condition that the society construct a building to house and display the collection. BVHS began planning and raising money for the project around 2008, according to the society’s president Lois Miller, and broke ground this past year. The property designated for the new museum first required demolition and removal of an old house and preparation of the ground for new construction. Miller stated that the society came up against a number of delays in proceeding
with the project that included “difficulty finding a cheaper building that the inspector would allow” and securing funding from the Community Facility Enhancement Program (CFEP), which reinvests lottery revenue into community capital projects. A CFEP grant of $75,000 was finally approved. When added to the donations the society had already received and $44,000 from two casinos, the project is well underway. According to Miller, after looking at several structure types, a ribbed quonset-style building was finally decided upon because it met the inspector’s requirement that the building be completely engineered. The cost was also within the society’s financial scope and would provide ample space for the massive tool collection.
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“We’ve spent about $100,000 so far and everything is paid for up to this point,” said Miller. Miller noted that there was some opposition to the idea of a quonsettype structure but added that once completed, the front of the building will have an old-fashioned façade, allowing it to fit in with Big Valley’s historic look. The building is constructed of ribs, each rib being raised individually. The whole building uses a total of 4,302 bolts, all of which are initially hand tightened. Once the entire building is up, all the bolts will be snugged tight. The interior will be sheathed in R20 value blanket insulation specifically designed for this type of structure. The society is aiming for a 2015 spring official opening. Miller says they are hoping to get heat and lights in before
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winter to enable continued work inside to have displays ready for the public. Currently, Rod Miller has a number of tools on display in the rail car portion of the Big Valley Museum. The new building will house tools not seen at the museum before. Depending on available space, the current tool displays may remain in the rail cars. The massive collection represents ‘hundreds and hundreds of hours of cleaning’ said Mr. Miller, to remove rust and bring the tools into a displayable state. As Mr. Miller points out, many modern tools are simply different versions of what has been used in one form or another for centuries. Visitors to the Big Valley Museum will usually find Mr. Miller with the tool collection, ready to answer questions and tell stories about each tool.
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