Madrid Historical Society

 Clay Castle Museum houses one of the largest collections of dolls in the country.  Many were made by Margaret Keigley, who started collecting dolls with her mother in 1938.  She has donated her collection to the Madrid Historical Society, starting the Clay Castle Museum.  Numerous other friends and members of the community have also loaned or donated dolls from their own collections to enhance the exhibit.  A count from 1994 totaled an impressive 1,005 dolls of every size and description.  Included in the collection are doll houses, sewing machines and a variety of toys.

• Very old paper mache' dolls with a wax coating and either wooden or mache' arms and legs.

• China Dolls with shiny glaze hands, feet, head and clothe body.

• Bisque head dolls with glass eyes and wigs of either mohair or real hair.

• All bisque dolls which were small, dainty and very popular with little girls that enjoyed dressing them.

• Composition dolls such as the first Shirley Temple, the Patsy's, the Sonja Henie, the Effenbee's and other character dolls.

• Early rubber and plastic dolls.

• Carved wooden dolls.

• Kewpies, American Indian, and dolls from many foreign lands.

• Old and new Teddy Bears.

• Wooden and metal doll houses with miniature furnishings.

• A collection of miniature wagons, ladies fans, purses, box beads, sewing machines, books, and much more.

Madrid Mine #7 houses a full sized replica of a "room" in an underground coal mine,  a scaled replica of the Sugar Valley horizontal mine and many artifacts from the local area mines.  Walk through a replica of an underground coal mine.  Experience the enclosed feeling those men of the past must have felt as they toiled in the dark, dank mine tunnels.  Examine real artifacts, view photos and read about the personal experiences of local coal miners and families from the past.