Museums in Baxter Springs, Kansas

Baxter Springs, Kansas

Baxter Springs Historical Museum
The Baxter Springs Historical Museum is filled with exhibits depicting the various stages of the city's history from the days of the Osage Indians through the Civil War and the lead and zinc mining er...
Baxter Springs Historical Museum
Bilke's Western Museum
Bilke's has several interesting features that tourists find entertaining and educational, a full size mural of the longhorn cattle drive on the side of our building plus a western museum located upsta...
Bilke's Western Museum
Little League Baseball Museum
This museum displays many awards and memorabilia of local sports heroes such as Mickey Mantle and Hale Irwin and other stars a Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Bill Russell, and other. ...
Little League Baseball Museum

National Cemetery #2

The soldier's plot in this cemetery was designated by the federal government after the Civil War on ground donated by the city for that purpose. It is under the jurisdiction of the National Cemetery Plot in Ft. Scott. The soldier's monument was erected in the spring of 1870

Baxter Springs, KS Cemeteries

Fort Blair Site

Baxter Springs was a stopping place on the old Military Road serving Army forts which protected the preCivil War West from "hostile" Indians. It wasn't until 1862

Baxter Springs, KS Forts

Log Cabin

The log cabin was built east of the Lowell Cemetery in the 1870s. R.A. Hibbard built it as a home for his brother-in-law's family. Kent Lynch purchased the property and donated the cabin to the Historical Society in memory of Marsah Moncrief Lynch. In 1987

Baxter Springs, KS Pioneer History

Riverside Park

Riverside Park is located at the east edge of Baxter Springs on Spring River on the south side of Highway 166

Baxter Springs, KS Recreation

Historic Walking Tour

Walk along the downtown sidewalks on both sides of Military Avenue. Posted on the store fronts of the historic buildings are framed accounts of the original occupants of each store, their dates, and sometimes an account of a particular historical event that took place at that spot.

Baxter Springs, KS Tours

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Baxter Springs, Kansas

Baxter Springs Historical Museum

Bilke's Western Museum

Little League Baseball Museum

Attractions and Upcoming Events

National Cemetery #2

Fort Blair Site

Log Cabin

Riverside Park

Historic Walking Tour

Things to do near Baxter Springs, KS

Prairie View Church

Historical Hiking Trail

Wilson County Veterans Memorial

Elk City Lake Scenic Views

City Campground