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Historic Swiss museum in Grundy facing long recovery from theft

Staff photo by Ben Benton The kitchen at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum remains in disarray after the building was burglarized on Nov. 12 or 13. Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley looks some small items the thieves left behind on the kitchen table.

Staff photo by Ben Benton The kitchen at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum remains in disarray after the building was burglarized on Nov. 12 or 13. Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley looks some small items the thieves left behind on the kitchen table.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, stands in an upstairs bedroom at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager. More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken but Lawley said this bedroom was not plundered as badly as the downstairs of the home.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley looks into an access door to the attic in the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager. An old ladder appears to have been moved by thieves who took more than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, looks over the mess left by thieves in the large front room of the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager. More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken on Nov. 12 or 13.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, looks over the mess left by thieves in the large front room of the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager. More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken on Nov. 12 or 13.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, stands on the front porch of the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager. More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken in a burglary on Nov. 12 or 13.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley peers into a cabinet ransacked by thieves in a break-in at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager. More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley stands in front of a crib thieves filled with old jars of food at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager, Tenn. Lawley believes the crib was so heavy the burglars decided to leave it behind. More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, looks over the mess left by thieves from a break-in at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager . More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken.

Staff photo by Ben Benton Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, stands in the front yard of the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum in Gruetli-Laager. More than $6,600 worth of antiques and one-of-a-kind artifacts were taken in a burglary on Nov. 12 or 13.

Staff photo by Ben Benton The kitchen at the Stoker-Stampfli Farm Museum remains in disarray after the building was burglarized on Nov. 12 or 13. Grundy County Swiss Historical Society president Jackie Lawley looks over the mess and empty cupboards the thieves left behind.

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