We are excited about our 2013 upcoming shows!

2013 Summer show flyer

Join us in July for our summer show! There will be tractors, threshing, baling, tractor parades, history, antique automobiles, and tractor pulls.

We will be sawing lumber at the saw mill and grinding grain in the flour mill each day. Our blacksmith will be hard at work in the Blacksmith Shop.

Don't miss the antique tractor pull on Saturday and the garden tractor pulls each day. There will also be a children's pedal tractor pull on Saturday afternoon. We will have live music Friday and Saturday nights.

On-site camping is available. We have modern restrooms and on-site concessions.

The 2013 Featured Tractor is John Deere.

Tractor pictured is a John Deere 630 formerly owned by longtime MAETA member Gary Hazelton. It was purchased and restored by Duane and Jerry Rodecap.

The 2013 Featured Engine is Waterloo.

This engine is a Type H Engine 1923 Waterloo 2 horsepower 575 rpm owned by the Wolnick family.

Congratulations to Sandy Lenhan of Tonganoxie! Sandy won the quilt at the Bloomfield Bazaar.

Our 36th Annual Threshing and Antique Tractor Show was great fun!

Pictures are up on our Facebook page, check us out there to upload your pics from the show.

Learn how we cut and bind the wheat for our show!

Our 2011 Summer show was HOT but fun!

Here is some of the press we received:

• Show pictures from the Vindicator
• Valley Falls Vindicator and Oskaloosa Independent
• Topeka Capital Journal

In addition to the International Harvester Collector's hosting their meeting with us in July 2010, Ag Am in Kansas featured our summer show on their daily program.
View the July 28, 2010 program

View the June 7 segment.

Welcome to Cottonwood Station, a reproduction living history of an early day Kansas town. Developed and maintained by the Meriden Antique Engine and Threshers Association (MAETA), established in 1977. Our purpose is to preserve, through living history, early farming techniques, the appreciation of antique engines, occupations and cultures in small towns and rural areas of early Kansas.


We are pleased to offer private tours of our grounds year-round. Please contact Merril Lovendahl at (785) 986-6469 for appointments and information.