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Old Albany Schoolhouse Museum

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The Albany Historic Museum building was formerly the Albany Rural School District No. 1, Brown and Nemaha. The two story limestone building was built...

The Dalton Gang Hideout & Museum

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A modest house and barn on a cottonwood shaded hill are home to an Old West legend. Notorious for robbing trains and banks, the...

The Old County Jail

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Built of limestone, this two story structure opened in 1869, only eight years after Kansas became a state. The prisoners were confined in cells...

Aubey Route

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The Aubrey Route, which left the Santa Fe Trail on the Arkansas River at Chouteau's Island and Indian Mound, west of Lakin, crossed Kearny...

Historical Sites

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Wild Horse Corral - In early days, wild horses were grazing on the prairie and often times driven into this native stone cave and...

Sheridan County Historical Society & Mickey’s Museum

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Mickey's Museum, donated by Vernon Mickey of Hoxie, is operated by the Sheridan County Historical Society. This museum covers generations of SheridanCounty history through...

Cottonwood Ranch

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State Historic SiteIn 1982 the State of Kansas purchased approximately twenty-three acres of the original Cottonwood Ranch. Today the Kansas State Historical Society administers...

Old Bell Monument

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Perched high on a hill overlooking the town and Neosho River valley below, this bell was erected in 1866 to warn townsfolk of Indian...

Nicodemus

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Nicodemus is the only remaining all African-American pioneer town west of the Mississippi. It was established in 1877 by ex-slaves from Kentucky and Tennesse....

Hobbs Park Memorial

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The Hobbs Park Memorial is a new public monument located in historic Old East Lawrence, which builds upon the community's abolitionist roots and reminds...