| Fort Leavenworth |
Leavenworth is the oldest city in Kansas, founded in 1854. Fort Leavenworth is the oldest continuously garrisoned military installation west of the Mississippi |
| U.S. Army Command and General Staff College |
Considered to be one of the finest senior tactical school in the world for advanced military education |
| Frontier Army Museum |
Gives a history of the frontier Army and the Civil, Mexican, and Indian wars. Includes: Sante Fe and Oregon Trail markers, Post Chapel, Fort Leavenworth National Cemetary, and the Buffalo Soldier Monument |
| Leavenworth County Museum |
housed in a 16-room, 1867 Carroll Mansion. Furnished with heirlooms of the 1800's |
| Mahaffie Farmstead and Stagecoach Stop |
Located in Olathe, it was used as a Sante Fe Trail Stagecoach stop, and the basement was a dining room for travelers. Built in 1857 |
| Old Shawnee Town |
See a re-created pioneer town that includes original 1800s log cabins, the first jail in Kansas, Shawnee Fire Barn, Amos Undertakers, and Frank's Barber Shop |
| Shawnee Indian Methodist Mission |
Established in 1839, was a labor school for Indian children. The first teritorial legislature met in the stately red brick building |
| Legler Barn Museum |
In Lenexa is a beautiful limestone barn built on the Sante Fe Trail in 1864. The restored barn houses pioneer relics, a prarie schooner, a restored 1912 railroad depot and a Northern Pacific caboose |
| Grinter Place State Historic Site |
A two-story 1857 farmhouse built from brick made here and contains original and period furnishings |
| Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center |
A historic 1887 High Victorian mansion, ethnic museum and cultural center |
| Children's Museum of Kansas City |
Family-oriented hands-on fun |
| Old Stone Church |
One of the first pioneer churches in Kansas, located in Osawatomie |
| Samuel Adair Cabin State Historic Site |
Located in Osawatomie, this site features a statue of abolishionist John Brown and the log cabin where Brown Stayed, the cabin was a station on the Underground Railroad |
| Wyandotte County Museum |
located in Bonner Springs |
| Johnson County Historical Museum |
located in Shawnee |
| Kansas Museum of History |
One of the finest state history museums in the country. Located in Topeka, there are exhibits of artwork and artifacts depicting Western and Kansas history from prehistoric to present times. The museum also features a hands-on gallery for children. |
| Kansas Center for Historical Research |
A large collection a research materials inclucing state archives, archaeology, maps, photos, and genealogical materials. |
| Ward Meade Park |
At Topeka, stroll through five and one-half acres of living history, including a restored 1870 Victorian mansion |
| Liberty Hall |
The first movie theater west of the Mississippi. Located in Lawrence. |
| Watkins Community Museum |
Find out more about Lawrence's intriguing history. |
| Quayle Rare Bible Collection |
In Baldwin City on the Baker University campus |
| Constitution Hall |
Located in lacompton is a National Landmark where a proslavery constitution was drafted during Lecompton's reign as the proslavery capital of Kansas |
| Lane University |
In Lecompton, A limestone building originally planned to be the Kansas State Capitol. |
| Native American Heritage Museum |
In Highland, visit an 1837 mission built for the Kansas Indian tribes. |
| Alcove Springs |
one of the most significant Kansas stops on the Oregon Trail. |
| Sarah Keys Monument |
commerates the grave of a pioneer woman who died on the trail. |
| Koester Block |
Marysville. Stone ions guard the walkway, and a brick wall surrounds the white-clapboard, 1876 House and Museum |
| International Forest of Friendship |
Atchison. dedicated to those contributing to the advancement of aviation. |
| Fort Larned National Historic Site |
Origionally built to protect travelers along the nearby Santa Fe Trail. |
| Santa Fe Trail Museum |
This museum chronicles the history of the trail and the settlement of the region. |
| Coronado Historical Museum |
Tells the story of one of the country's earliest explorers, Francisco Coronado, who entered into Kansas in 1541. |
| St. Jacob's Well |
A huge well that was important to Indians and early settlers, in Clark County. |
| Wagon Bed Springs |
Located on the Santa Fe Trail, south of Ulysses, it's a National Historic Landmark. |
| Coronado-Quivira Museum |
In Lyons, see arifacts frim Coronado's 1541 trip to Kansas. |
| Pawnee Rock State Historic |
Located north of Pawnee Rock, the red sandstone outcrop was the most notable landmark along the Santa Fe Trail. |
| Coronado Heights |
Has a beautiful view where you can look over miles of prairie just like Coronado did in 1541. This butte is located near Lindsborg. |
| Carry Nation |
She began her ax-swinging crusade against the demon rum here in Medicine Lodge. You can visit her home which still contains some of her personal belongings. |
| Annual Peace Treaty Pageant |
The pageant takes place every three years in Medicine Lodge where over 1500 people help stage it with wagon trains, Indians and soldiers. |
| Fort Riley |
Home of Army's First Infantry Division and has been the home of the U.S. Cavalry for almost a century. |
| The U.S. Cavarly Museum |
Housed in a building that dates to 1855. It tells the story of the mounted horse soldiers of the U.S. Cavalry from 1775-1950. |
| Custer House |
It realistically depicts military life on the western frontier. |
| Kansas First Territorial Capitol |
A restored museum furnished with period items. |
| Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum |
In Arkansas City, witness collections of documents, photographs and other relics depicting the 1893 land rush in which 150,000 settlers raced to claim millions of acres in Oklahoma. |
| Indian Pay Station |
Located in St. Mary, this small stone structure is where Potawatomi Indians were paid their meager allotments in exchange for land. It is now part of St. Mary's Historical Society Complex. |
| Beecher Bible and Rifle Church |
Just south of Wamego, here famed abolitionist and preacher Henry Ward Beecher contributed rifles and Bibles to the small colony. |
| William Allen White |
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who made Emporia widely known as his home town. |
| William White Library |
Located at Emporia State University, a reminder of the Emporia Gazette's editor and publisher. |
