Deep in the veins of the heart of the U.S. holds the world’s largest time capsule. According to Roadside America, the time capsule was built by a senior citizen, Harold Davisson, who placed the time capsule right in front of his furniture store in Seward, Nebraska. He was a man who had an idea for the future. His daughter, Trish Johnson, said that Davisson was thinking about his grandchildren, and wanted them to remember him in some way. He believed the only way to pass on his legacy was to have various objects that could be held and used rather than just books. He wanted to be recognized through the nation, so on the 4th of July in 1975, the time capsule was made.
Roadside America also states that after the time capsule was buried in 1975, the Guinness Book of World records came into the picture in 1977 stating that Davisson’s time capsule was the largest in the world. An outrage occurred when a university in Atlanta, Georgia heard about Davisson’s time capsule. They argued that their time capsule built in 1940 was bigger. Guinness decided to drop Davisson after investigating. However Davisson wanted his title back and built onto his time capsule making another on top of the first one in 1983.
The only one who knew about this was his daughter, who knows the most about the time capsule.
