The building housing PTC No. 6 is not elaborate and it is not heated (nor air-conditioned). Wind (and occasionally snow) often enters the building through the spaces between its twelve sides.
After a long and sometimes dusty 2019 operating season, the forty-six animals on the Kit Carson County Carousel were recently carefully “washed” by the Burlington FFA students.
The 2019 summer season is nearly at its end. The last day to take a spin, visit the museum, and shop in the gift shop is Monday, September 2nd (Labor Day).
In 2004, the armored horse was the first of the sixteen outside row Kit Carson County Carousel animals to be featured on a hand thrown pottery mug produced by Deneen Pottery. In 2019, the goat became the last of the sixteen animals to grace the front of the yearly pottery mug. During the last d