History Highlights Tour: Feeding America - 1920s Truck Farming

Step back in time at Shawnee Town 1929, a living history museum that brings early 20th-century rural life to vivid reality. This guided tour focuses on truck farming—the small-scale, intensive agriculture that fed American families and communities during the 1920s. Expect to explore authentic buildings, learn how farmers grew and sold produce, and discover the daily work and ingenuity that sustained rural households. It's a hands-on way for kids to understand where food comes from and how ordinary people lived and worked a century ago.