You spot them everywhere: John Deere machines. That bright green color catches the eye, but there is another detail that raises some eyebrows about the company; John Deere hailed from Rutland, making ...

The Feb. 7, 2004, bicentennial of John Deere’s birth passed quietly in his native Rutland. Likewise in Middlebury, where he got his start as a blacksmith, it was marked as a footnote rather than a ...

Cover tractor of the month Fastline Mid-Atlantic Edition. Owned and restored by Steve Willis, Shelby, NC. The John Deere A tractor and 6 disk plow were purchased in 1040 by Lester Allen from C.J.

There were certain chores for which I was not entrusted in my pre-teen summers on the farm. Among them was plowing. Plowing took a steady hand at the tractor wheel and experience to keep the fields ...

When I saw this plow it was about 30 feet from the American History Museum’s Constitution Avenue entrance, on the right-hand side, in a display case of artifacts. To the immediate left of the plow was ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. John Deere failed as a blacksmith in ...