While in Oregon, I went to the Brownsville Museaum. Brownsville is where the movie Stand By Me was filmed. It is a picturesque town that seems to consist of 2 whole streets, haha. I went to visit the museaum there and the little lady running it told my friend and I the story behind a covered wagon there. The Drinkard family was the family that used this wagon to cross the country from Philadelphia , Pa to Brownsville, Oregon. The wrench she speaks of is on the cross arm and was also used to hold the horses or oxen to the wagon, when the wagon was up on its wooden jack for having its hubs greased, the oxen were no longer attached to the wagon, preventing the wagon from being torn up in the event the oxen were to be spooked and were to dart away. Mrs. Drinkard sold their property and the property of her mother, got her husband released from prison on the precept that they would leave that area of the country never to return, walked along side the wagon with her small children 2000 + miles from Philadelphia to Brownsville while pregnant. Upon arriving in Oregon, she had her baby. She was an amazing woman and a hero for keeping her family together in a day and age that didn't see women as anything more than property of their husband.
While in Oregon, I went to the Brownsville Museaum. Brownsville is where the movie Stand By Me was f...
