The West Jordan Historical Museum continues to thank the volunteers and Eagle Scout projects that are helping us ready the museum for a grand opening this coming spring. This is still a lot to be done and we could use some help. 

 We recently completed the service porch portion of the museum and have moved in all of our displays. We are still looking for some old laundry items to help fill out the display of what a 1930-1940 laundry area would have looked like. We could use some old laundry soap boxes, bleach bottles, clothes pins, clothes pin holder, bottles of bluing and other items used to wash clothes. We would also like to have some old West Jordan family pictures of people doing the laundry to hang up.

 Our dairy barn is being worked on so we will be able to display the dairy heritage of West Jordan and the rest of the Salt Lake Valley. If you happen to have a life-size fiberglass cow lying around we could use it for our milking display. We are looking for other dairy items and equipment unique to West Jordan to display. This would be a great way to honor your family’s dairy past by donating items to be displayed.

 An old wooden water tank has been donated to the museum and we could use some skilled construction people to volunteer some time to get the bottom part stabilized so it can be moved to the pad that is being poured for it. Then the bottom can be restored and work started on the top part of the tank house to restore it. We are looking for a old working wind mill to set up next to the water tank to show how water was pumped by the wind mill and stored in the water tank. We could use donated labor and cash donations for the project

 In our prominent people of West Jordan room, we have a showcase that families can use to honor their family members. If you have photos and artifacts of your early West Jordan ancestors and would like to share them with the community, this is a great way to do it.

 The Historical Society is also looking for volunteers to help move the old pipe organ out of the old church building by the end of May to save it for later use in the community. If you can help please call ASAP.

 Again we thank the many volunteers and friends of the West Jordan Historical Museum and Society and invite those who are interested in being part of our museum board and serve on committees to help to preserve our West Jordan heritage, or do donate items for display, please call Linda Dalley at 255-3116 or 941-0189.