{"id":170,"date":"2017-12-22T14:36:37","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T14:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.woodenpress.info\/census\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2018-12-28T16:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T16:04:28","slug":"historic-arkansas-museum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.woodenpress.info\/census\/historic-arkansas-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Arkansas Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historic Arkansas Museum<\/a>: <\/strong>200 E 3rd St, Little Rock, AR 72201.<\/p>\n

John Horn and Andrew Zawaski build two presses. One is in the Historic Arkansas Museum, the other one in the John C. Horn Collection<\/a> of Antique Printing presses. \u201cRecreation of the Ramage printing press brought west of the Mississippi River in 1819 by William Woodruff.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Museum has a \u2018virtual tour<\/a>\u2019 of the second floor of the museum to show the Woodruff Print shop.<\/p>\n

Cindy Ladage writes<\/a>: \u2018The reconstructed Print shop was completed in 2010. William Woodruff was the young man, who ran the shop and printed the first edition of the Arkansas Gazette<\/em> at the Arkansas Post.\u00a0 Woodruff moved to Little Rock after the territorial government moved to town.\u00a0 The two-story brick print shop was used from 1824 to 1827.\u2019<\/p>\n

Website<\/a>: \u201cAcross the block, in the upstairs of a brick building meant to be a representation of the circa 1824 print shop of Arkansas Gazette founder and printer to the Arkansas Territory William Woodruff, stands another project that consumed Zawacki\u2019s craft and passion for over a year: a huge wooden press he built from oak and cherry, copying an original he found in Vincennes, Ind.\u00a0 Featuring Zawacki’s artful woodwork and metal parts fabricated by Stone County Ironworks in Mountain View and Central Machine Shop in Little Rock, the press is period-correct in every detail, and has actually been used on occasion for demonstrations and to do short runs of handbills and other printed goods.\u201d<\/p>\n