This photo shows the Whippet Tank that visited the area in 1919. The May 15, 1919 Sandy Creek Newspaper had this account, “Last Friday promptly on schedule the whippet tank under command of Lieutenant Hazard reached Sandy Creek from Adams and that afternoon climbed the heaps of logs in Postmaster Wilcox’s mill yard cut down a maple tree ten inches in diameter and did various stunts. In Sandy Creek it butted its way through the cellars of the burnt district fronting Main Street. (California Block) Here, surrounded by a crowd, the final stand in the Victory Loan was made. At the close of Saturday the local banking district had subscribed $86,000 the percentage being 145% or nearly one and a half times the allotment.”

“Our people were deeply interested in the feats of the tank, which remained here till late Saturday afternoon to make needed repairs. Then the outfit went south. The tank was loaded on a five-ton truck.”