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Baker Arts Center

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Known as a “cultural oasis on the prairie”, the Baker Arts Center is an art education facility which promotes the arts in Southwest Kansas. A 5000 square foot three level handicap accessible building is the former home of Irene Dillon and Francis Marion Baker.

The Baker Arts Center offers a visual art exhibit that features national traveling exhibits, local one-artist shows, an annual juried art show, works from area high schools, and pieces from its own collection. Included in these exhibits have been pieces ranging from oil, acrylic and watercolor paintings, to sculptures, photography, quilt displays, handmade jewelry, woodworking, glassworks, and collages. A workshop area, a Discovery Center for kids, the Baker Memorial Room, a Library and a Sales Gallery, all make the Baker Center a delightful place to experience.

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Mid-America Air Museum

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With more than 90 aircraft on display, the Mid-America Air Museum in Liberal, Kansas, is one of the largest aviation museums in the United States. Whether you are interested in general aviation, classic planes, home builts, warbirds, or modern jets, there\’s something to spark your imagination at the museum. Highlights of the collection include the Cessna Airmaster owned by Dwane Wallace, long-time president of Cessna Aircraft and a Beech Model 17 Staggerwing. Military airplanes include a World War II B-25 Mitchell bomber, a Korean War veteran F-80 Shooting Star, and an F-14A Tomcat used during Desert Storm.

Hands-on exhibits demonstrate how and why airplanes fly. Launch a hot air balloon. Unlock the mysteries of lift using a wind tunnel. Study the inner workings of aircraft engines. Operate the control surfaces of an airplane to see how pilots guide their flying machines through the air. All this and much more awaits you at the Mid-America Air Museum.

Coronado Museum

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Coronado Museum

The Coronado Museum is housed in a landmark structure originally built in 1918 as the residence of the Lee Larrabee family. The building retains the warmth and style of an early Western home. Oak staircases, paneled walls and floors add an unusual charm to the treasures of the people who settled Seward County, Kansas.

In keeping with its affiliation with the Seward County Historical Society, the museum features both items that helped to settle the territory during its Wild West heyday, including an extensive weapons display and a large collection of those things that gave it a more civilized tone, including a beautifully restored ornate antique organ, quilts and home furnishings.

A Western Gallery, with photos of ranch life and frontier settlers, tells the story of the taming of the land. In 1996, the museum opened a western living exhibit, featuring artifacts and a recreation of what Seward County might have been like in its early days.

Also, visit Dorothy’s House on the grounds!


Admission: Admission: Adult, $12.50; Senior 65+, $10; 6-14, $8. Group Tours.
Address: 587 E. Cedar
Phone: 620-624-7624
Our Email: schs@swko.net
Our Website:www.dorothyshouse.com/

Winter Hours

Open 9:00 a.m. – Noon/1p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday – Saturday

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday

Summer Hours
(Memorial Day to Labor Day)

Open 9:00 a.m. – Noon/1p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Monday – Saturday

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday

Land of OZ Dorothy’s House

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Dorothy's House

Liberal’s Dorothy’s House was built in 1907 and donated to the Seward County Historical Society. It has been carefully restored and furnished with period furnishings to reproduce the warmth of the farmhouse where Dorothy realized that:

“There’s no place like home.”

In the “Land of Oz” families can wander down the Yellow Brick Road through 5000 square feet of animated entertainment – good and bad witches, the Munchkins, talking trees, winged monkeys, and of course, Dorothy, the Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion are all there to enthrall children of all ages.

And adults will enjoy the Oz memorabilia on display, including the original model of Dorothy’s house used in the 1939 filming of the Wizard of Oz.

Admission: Adult, $12.50; Senior 65+, $10; 6-14, $8. Group Tours.
Address: 567 Yellow Brick Road
Phone: 620-624-7624
Our Email: schs@swko.net
Our Website:www.dorothyshouse.com/

Winter Hours

Open 9:00 a.m. – Noon/1p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday – Saturday

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday

Summer Hours
(Memorial Day to Labor Day)

Open 9:00 a.m. – Noon/1p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Monday – Saturday

1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday

Jerry Thomas Gallery and Collection

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Beautiful Gallery displaying Jerry’s artwork and historic collections.

Battle Canyon

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Jerry Thomas Gallery

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Jerry Thomas is a hometown graduate. Very well known for his wildlife paintings, and his series featuring military posts of Kansas and sports paintings.

Scott Community Golf Course

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9-hole course on the North edge of Scott City.

Squaw’s Den Cave, The Last Indian Battle in Kansas

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Travel to the place where the last Indian battle in Kansas took place. Punished Woman Fork is about a mile southeast of Lake Scott State Park. It is marked by a monument over a cave known as Squaw’s Den where Indian women and children hid while warriors waited in ambush for the US Calvary.

On the afternoon of September 27, 1878 Dull Knife, Little Wolf, Wild Hog and the members of the Northern Cheyenne band came to the protecting shelter of the valley of Punished Woman’s Fork. Although exhausted from their flight before the US Army, they began at once to fortify their position and set up an ambush. In the battle that followed, commanding officer, Lt. Col. William H. Lewis was mortally wounded. He became the last Army officer killed in a military action in the State of Kansas.

This area was made a county park in 1958. The conditions have changed since the battle. The creek no longer flows as it did in 1878. What was then native grasses is now corn and alfalfa. But you still sense the historical drama that took place here and appreciate the rugged living conditions that were forced onto the occupants of these narrow canyons only a century ago.

Old Steele Pioneer Home

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As a visitor to Lake Scott State Park you’ll want to stop at the Old Steele Home. This site has a variety of features, from the stream below the home fed by natural springs, to the bluff across the road giving a breathtaking panoramic view of the Park and Lake. All the attractions are within walking distance of your car.

The home was hand quarried from native sandstone in 1894. Built on two levels, the house’s front door opens onto the road where visitors park. The back door, on the lower level exists to a gently sloping meadow leading to the stream below. As an additional attraction from visitors, the building’s interior is furnished with articles typical of pioneer homes.

Take the time to climb to the top of the bluff across the road. You can catch your breath in the stone shelter at the top. Then, stand beside the Steele Memorial made from a four-ton red granite boulder which was brought from Colorado and placed on its concrete base at the end of the bluff in 1930. Now, gaze out over the dream-come-true of Herbert and Liza Steele. They envisioned the State Park in the late 1920s and dedicated 640 acres of their property to the Kansas State Forestry, Fish and Game commission.

We hope you’ll enjoy the heritage the Steele’s preserved for future generations and take away with you a kindred spirit of love for this natural beauty.

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