This building was started with an appropriation of $50,000 from the United States Congress. It was completed to the bottom of the first floor windows when the United States House of Representatives defeated the Lecompton Constitution by only eight votes. The followed...

The Cann Memorial Botanical Gardens (4 hectares / 10 acres) are botanical gardens located in Ponca City, Oklahoma, USA. In 1975 the Lester A. Cann private home (circa 1908) and gardens were donated to Ponca City by Elsie Cann Brown, daughter of L.A. and Mary Cann....

The mission of the Fairbury City Museum is to preserve, display and promote the history of Fairbury, Nebraska as well as Jefferson County. The Fairbury City Museum has a very impressive inventory of period items that have been donated by friends and families of the...

The history of the Chisholm Trail is more than the story of range-tough cowboys, stampeding cattle, and rowdy cowtowns. It is also the story of a people successfully adapting to the political, social, and economic changes brought on by our nation's most devastating...

Built in 1869, Lanesfield School is the only building that remains on the town site of Lanesfield, Kansas. Programs in the one-room schoolhouse feature a costumed schoolteacher who recreates a 1904 school experience that includes writing with pen and ink, slate work...

Peter Conser was born in 1852 and died in 1934. His home remained in the Conser family until 1967 when his granddaughter (Mrs. Lewis Barnes) and her husband donated the home to the Oklahoma Historical Society. The Society has renovated the home and returned it to a...

The Austin-Whittemore House Museum is a home in Vermillion which was built atop a bluff along the river after a disastrous flood swept three-fourths of the town away in 1881.Admire the 1883 Italian villa architecture of this stately home, filled with Victorian...

North Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum is a botanical garden and arboretum on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa, Oklahoma. It is an affiliate garden of the Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum. oday's gardens include an arboretum and...

Susanna Madora Salter was a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and a young mother of 27 years when she was elected the first woman mayor in the United States. Her home, now the Salter House Museum, was built in 1884 by Mrs. Salter's father,...

The Santa Fe Depot houses the Cannonball Welcome Center and the beginnings of a railroad museum. The building is being restored (the major part of restoration is finished) back to its original splendor. Travelers may stop by to check out the latest brochures from...