ED & VILLIE GALLOWAY HOME (constructed 1937)


"This is guidepost four which means you should be viewing the Galloway home which sits on the west side of the park. The Galloway homestead was not only a tourist attraction it was first and foremost a working farm that allowed the Galloway’s to be totally self-sufficient. In addition to the Craftsman-style stone house that they called home, the Galloways designed and built many structures to the south and west of this residence that are no longer standing. To the south, a smokehouse for meats, a root cellar and a vegetable garden, an apple orchard south of what is now the parking lot, and shops for creating his fiddles and other items of inlaid wood. There are also the remains of several working wells around the property which Galloway dug himself. They have since been filled in, but you can still see the remains of the wells around the property.


"Mr. Galloway once said that he completed the house in six years of weekends often bringing out his students from the Sand Springs Home to help him haul sandstones from the creeks around the property to build the foundation for the house and to use his building materials for everything else in the park. At that time, Mr. Galloway had an old Model A Ford that he would use to transport the rock and other materials he had collected to build the house. He and Villie moved into the house around 1937 shortly after Galloway retired."


"Totem Pole Park Audio Tour," written by Tim Brown, commissioned by Dr. Carolyn Comfort and the Rogers County Historical Society.