Everitt Tractors was started back in the mid 1950’s by Stanley Everitt. Stanley had a great interest in tractors and farming which help him start a tractor parts business along with his son, Jerry Everitt, fresh out of high school, started working the tractor parts business alongside his dad in 1959.
By the late 1970’s, Jerry’s tractor parts business grew into one of the largest tractor parts businesses in the state of Iowa. After working several late nights in the early mornings at the tractor auction in Chariton, IA, Jerry decided in 1980 to have his own auctions.
By the late 1980's, the auctions had grown and grown as Jerry had taught his two sons and brother-in-law the business, growing it into a huge auction that regularly sold 100 tractors and 500 - 800 pieces of farm equipment's.
"If only these Tractors could talk"
Photo: Arthur Wolfs, West Union
Volga, Iowa
Museum
In the mid 70’s Jerry Everitt along with His friend Merle Soules built and opened a Tractorland Museum in Jerry’s Father’s Honor Stanley Everitt. The museum showcased steam-farm tractors from 1900-1950’s; also farm equipment and tools through the early 1900’s. The museum hosted people from the late 70’s to the early 2000’s from all over the US and Overseas till it’s liquidation auction in 2019.
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2024 FFA Awards
Stars of Iowa Agriculture