Leonis Adobe Museum - Share the Legend

Barn & Blacksmith:
Students step back in time to the 1880s by touring the barn and blacksmith shop. They will relive the days when it held Percheron draft horses and cows. Blacksmithing, barn chores, and information about the wagons will be discussed.

Ranch Animals:
Students will pet, feed and observe the animals supervised with Leonis Adobe guides. Animals include poultry, goats, sheep, Percheron draft horses and longhorn cattle.

Teacher Support Packets
Teachers can provide these three activity sheets as additional learning activities their students can do when visiting the Leonis Adobe Museum: a diary entry, a letter to Miguel Leonis and a timeline that highlights important dates about the Leonis Adobe.


Ask your children to consider these questions for living on the ranch in 1880s:

• How shall we light our night before there is electricity?
• How shall we preserve food without electric refrigerators or freezers?
• How shall we amuse ourselves without TV, radio , or electronic games?
• How shall we get to town in winter, when the unpaved roads are so muddy that our horse and wagon can't get through?
• What shall we use to pull plows in the field before we had tractors?
• How shall we learn in school when there are four grades in the same room, at the same time with the same teacher?
• How shall we pump water to drink without an electric pump?
• How shall we irrigate the crops in the field?
• How can we get milk, butter, cheese and meat when we can't get to a store?
• How shall we heat our homes? How shall we cool our homes?
• How shall we find time to do our ranch chores, feed the animals, clean out the stables and get our school work done too?