Southeast Kansas Heritage Tour
Southeast Kansas has broad, sweeping plains
interrupted by the bluestem-covered Flint Hills. Museums address the
region's mining and oil industries as well as local county history.
You'll also find a number of Civil War sites, including the state's
largest Civil War battlefield.
Towns are listed in alphabetical order, followed by information on
historical attractions. Use our button bar below to go to a town on
your itinerary.
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Featuring exhibits on county history.
Location: 1101 Neosho Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday
Telephone: 316-364-2653
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Learn about the life and times of early cinematographers Martin and
Osa Johnson. African tribal artifacts also are displayed.
Location: 111 N. Lincoln Avenue
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday - Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday Telephone: 316-431-2730
Admission: $2.50
Coffeyville
Exhibits on the Dalton gang robbery and the gang's break-up in 1892,
plus early Coffeyville history and Wendell Willkie and Walter Johnson
mementos.
Location: 113 E. Eighth Street
Hours: Memorial Day - Labor Day: 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. daily; Labor
Day - Memorial Day: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily
Telephone:
316-251-5944
Admission: $3.00
Columbus
Columbus Museum
Variety of displays on local history, featuring Merle Evans (Ringling
Bros. Circus band leader for over 50 years).
Location: 100 S. Tennessee Avenue
Hours: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday, 2 - 4 p.m. Sundays
Telephone: 316-429-2160
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Cottonwood Falls
Chase County Historical Museum
History of the county and the surrounding Flint Hills, plus Knute Rockne
artifacts and home of Prairyerth .
Location: 301 Broadway
Hours: 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. daily
Telephone:
316-273-8500
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Roniger Memorial Museum
The collection of brothers Frank and George Roniger, focusing on Native
American artifacts,(many found locally).
Location: 315 Union
Hours:
1:30 - 4:30 p.m. daily except Monday and Thursday
Telephone: 316-273-8447
Admission: Free,
donations appreciated
Council Grove
This beautiful stone building was an early mission for children of
the Kaw tribe. Located on the Santa Fe Trail, the surrounding town of
Council Grove was a favorite stopping place for travelers.
Location: 500 N. Mission Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday
Telephone: 620-767-5410
Admission: $3 adults, $2 seniors, $1 students,
KSHS members and children under five admitted free
General county history in a historic building near downtown Emporia;
also large research facility with county sources.
Location: 118 E. Sixth Avenue
Hours: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday
Telephone: 316-342-0933
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
The showplace home of William Allen White, nationally known newspaperman
and author
Location: 927 North Exchange Street
Hours: Call for specific times
Telephone: 620-342-1803
Admission: Suggested donation $2 adults,
$1 children
Eureka
Greenwood County Historical Society
Extensive research facility with exhibits on ranching, war, and general
county history.
Location: 120 W. Fourth Street
Hours: 9:00 a.m. - noon, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Monday - Saturday
Telephone: 316-583-6682
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
One of the nation's premier restored and reconstructed frontier forts,
dating from 1842. Includes 20 historic buildings, a parade ground, and
five acres of tallgrass prairie.
Location: Old Fort Boulevard
Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. daily
Telephone: 316-223-0310
Admission: $2.00
Fredonia
Wilson County Historical Society Museum
Exhibits on county history--including the local glass industry--in
the old county jail building.
Location: 420 N. Seventh Street
Hours: 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday
Telephone: 316-378-3965
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Galena Mining and Historical Museum
Focuses on the extensive local mining industry, especially lead mining
operations and smelting. Also, art collection of mining scenes.
Location: 319 W. Seventh Street
Hours: 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday
Telephone: 316-783-2192
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Garnett
Anderson County Historical Museum
Features a country store, school room, and other exhibits on local
history.
Location: Sixth & Maple
Hours: May 1 - Sept. 30: 1:00 -
4:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday, otherwise by appt.
Telephone: 785-448-5962
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Goessel
Historic village museum telling the story of the German-Russian Mennonites
and their involvement in Kansas agriculture.
Location: 200 N. Poplar
Hours: May - September: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. Tuesday - Friday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; March -
April and October - December: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday - Sunday. Closed
January - February.
Telephone: 316-367-8200
Admission: $3.00
Pioneer Adobe House Museum
Seven-room adobe house with straw-burning oven and attached barn, dating
from 1876. Complex also includes Kruetziger Country School, Friesen
Dutch Mill, and visitor center.
Location: 501 S. Ash
Hours: March - December: 10:00 a.m. - noon,
1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday - Friday; 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday;
January - February: by appointment
Telephone: 316-947-3775
Admission: $2.00
Norman No. 1 Oil
Well Museum
Oil industry artifacts displayed at the site of an early commercial
oil well.
Location: 106 S. First Street
Hours: 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday
Telephone: 316-325-5316
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Log cabin built by Reverend Samuel Adair and wife Florella (John Brown's
half-sister), located at the site of the Battle of Osawatomie. New displays
on John Brown and the Adair family to open during the summer of 1998.
Location: John Brown Park at 10th and Main
Hours: 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Wednesday -
Saturday, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Sunday
Telephone: 913-755-4384
Admisson: Suggested donation $2 adults, $1
children
Osawatomie Museum
Local history displays on pre-Civil War border warfare, rural farm
history, Missouri Pacific Railroad, and the Osawatomie State Hospital.
Location: 628 Main Street
Hours: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday
Telephone: 913-755-4452
Admission: Free, donations appreciated
Ravine where 11 men were gunned down by border ruffians during the
"Bleeding Kansas" era.
Location: 6 miles north of Pleasanton, east
3 miles on Highway 52; follow signs
Hours: Currently closed to the public
Telephone: 913-352-8890 (Mine Creek Battlefield)
Admission: NA
Site of the only major Civil War battle on Kansas soil.
Location: 2 miles north of Pleasanton, west
1 mile on K-52
Hours: (Visitor Center) 10:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. Saturday
(Battlefield) open dawn to dusk
Telephone: 913-352-8890
Admission: (Museum) $3 adults, $2 seniors,
$1 students, KSHS members and children under five admitted free;
(Battlefield) free
Trading Post Museum
Displays on the "Bleeding Kansas" era and the Civil War battle
of Mine Creek, plus local history.
Location: US Highway 69; turn at mile marker
96
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m., Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.
Telephone 785-352-6441
Admission: Free; donations appreciated
Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to confirm hours, admission,
and holiday schedules. To request that your museum be added to this
listing, contact our webmaster.
Check Blue Skyways' Kansas
Museums page for more sites around the state. See also
Link to Kansas for virtual tours of heritage sites.
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