John Deere green

As part of our unplanned detour through Iowa, we accidentally found the John Deere tractor and engine museum in Waterloo Iowa.  We saw the museum as we went by on the highway so we backtracked a little so that we could visit the museum.

The newish museum describes the company's beginnings as a maker of plows (that are pulled behind horses) to moving into tractors after purchasing a local Waterloo company in the early 1900s. Lots of nicely restored tractors in their shiny green finish on display.