Calk was bitten by the building bug when a Coleman friend closed his gas station and gave Calk the station's tall red and white Texaco sign. I'll just go ahead and build a gas station to go with the sign. He didn't know at the time that several more buildings, enough in fact to make a village, would rise up beside the gas station. But they did. Part of Calk's display is his old dairy building.
Stalls are still there for the cows.
The 1950s mechanical milking apparatus, the coolers, the cream separators and the office where Calk sold milk, cream and butter up until the mid-1970s are all still there, too. And the equipment is still functional, as are most of the structures and various additions to the village. The outhouse would work, too, if it were just sitting over a deep hole. Calk grew up on his father's dairy farm near Silver Valley in northern Coleman County. It was a fine thing, but served only half of the population.