Photo submitted by Hill ‘N Hollow Quilters Guild
The Casey House, located on the Baxter County Fairgrounds, will be open for tours from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. October 19 – 21 during the Hill ‘N Hollow Quilters Guild’s Autumn in the Ozarks quilt show.
The Casey House is a dog-trot style home built in the 1850s by Colonel Randolph D. Casey, one of Mountain Home’s first citizens, and it is the oldest existing home in Mountain Home.
The building has stood on the same spot through the settlement of Baxter County, the growth of Mountain Home and the establishment of the fairgrounds just outside the gate. In Caseys time, several outbuildings surrounded the cabin, but they were taken down long ago. The Casey House is maintained by the Baxter County Historical and Genealogical Society.
Just in time for the Autumn in the Ozarks quilt show, the Hill ‘N Hollow Quilters Guild gifted its Arkansas sesquicentennial quilt to the Baxter County Historical and Genealogical Society. The quilt has been on loan to the Donald W. Reynolds Library since 1994. The quilt was hand quilted by Guild members, designed and assembled in 1986 by then Guild members Joan Aitken, Mary McAuliff, Flo Malaney, Paula Vines, and life-time member Connie Lutes.
The quilt’s attic window design tells the story of Arkansas and the Twin Lakes Area. It depicts the state’s official tree, pine; the Ozark Mountains with a bass and the logo of the Guild; Little Rock block for the State Capital; a schoolhouse symbolizing the University of Arkansas; the State Flower, the apple blossom; the Crater of Diamonds at Murfreesboro; cotton and rice fields, along with a house block representing the historic Casey House in Mountain Home; and an outline of the State of Arkansas.
The quilt and pictures of the Guild’s quilt shows held in the Casey House during the years 1984 – 1989 will be on display during the Autumn in the Ozarks quilt show.
Photo (left to right): Constance Randall, President, Hill ‘N Hollow Quilters Guild; Donna Bohaty, Secretary; Diana Arikan, Treasurer; and David W. Benedict, President, Baxter County Historical and Genealogical Society
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