Old Cowtown Museum ADA access Tour

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Old Cowtown Museum ADA access Tour

Wichita, Kansas 67203, United States

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Old Cowtown Museum is an open air museum with 45+ buildings on 26 acres. In recent years concrete sidewalks were added for increased mobility. Some of our historic buildings have accessibility issues. We have noted some of the obvious challenges and offer a glimpse into these less than accessible buildings with this tour.


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Welcome to the PAST! The upside down railway symbolizes the beginning of your adventure into Wichita's past.  Beyond this arch you will find recreations of history, exhibits filled with curious objects, and entertaining people and activiti... Read more
The Heller Cabin in the Wichita Beginnings section of Old Cowtown Museum represents a trading post that would have been used by Town Founders such as J.R. Mead or Dutch Bill Greiffenstein. Their activity represents the roots of  pre-railro... Read more
The Trappers Cabin in the Wichita's Beginnings District at Old Cowtown Museum represents a dimension of the hunting and trading economiy that was the foundation of early Wichita.  In addition to hunting fur bearing animals, others used ... Read more
The Munger House in the Wichita's Beginnings District at Old Cowtown Museum represents the intentional piviot point to move toward creating a city and moving away from an unicorporated group of dwellings.  Darius S. Munger of Topeka was... Read more
The Jail located in the Business District at Old Cowtown Museum represents the city's move to a more formal law enforcement system.  Wichita’s first city jail was constructed during the summer of 1871. The jail, or calaboose as it was c... Read more
The General Store in the Business District at Old Cowtown Museum represents the earliest mercantile and banking operations in the young city.  Before Wichita received rail road service in 1872, general stores were the primary outlet for a... Read more
The Blood House in the Agricultural District at Old Cowtown Museum represents the entrepreneurial spirit of the early farmers in Sedgwick County who relied on diversity of activities to thrive in the former Great American Desert. Gillman Bl... Read more
Uneven ground to farm house and out buildings. Farm house has 2 steps up to back door and front porch 
The DeVore Farm in the Agricultural District at Old Cowtown Museum represents an upper middle class progressive farmer who took advantage of science, inventions and economy to rise to that level. The average farm in 1875 was 160 acres, 35 ... Read more
This farm family would be of similar wealth to the Murdock family (House in Residential Area) but with neighbors far away, farm living was less formal than those in town.   Kitchen  - Guests enter from the porch.  Guests would enter the... Read more
The Blacksmith Shop located in the Business District of Old Cowtown Museum represents a general repair shop, with emphasis on agricultural equipment repair, in Wichita during the 1870s.  The blacksmith’s trade was an important business ... Read more
The Marshal’s Office located in the Business District of Old Cowtown Museum interprets the growing formal law enforcement in Wichita.  In 1870 Wichita was a 2nd class city with 2000 inhabitants The newly created  city council drafted o... Read more
The Meat Market located in the Business District of Old Cowtown Museum represents the diversification of local markets in Wichita, Kansas during the 1870s. Nineteenth century Americans consumed great amounts of meat.  Nearly every meal inc... Read more
The Grain Elevator and Scale House located in the Industrial Area of Old Cowtown Museum represents the role of agriculture in Sedgwick County and agribusiness in Wichita.  As farming moved from subsistence to industrial production farmers ... Read more
The Grain Elevator and Scale House located in the Industrial Area of Old Cowtown Museum represents the role of agriculture in Sedgwick County and agribusiness in Wichita.  As farming moved from subsistence to industrial production farmers ... Read more
The Santa Fe Depot located in the Industrial Area of Old Cowtown Museum, represents the dynamic and transforming role the railroad had on Wichita is and Sedgwick County’s economic, transportation, and communication developments during t... Read more
The Eagle Cornice Works located in the Industrial Area of Old Cowtown Museum, represents the industrial development in the growing town.  It was founded in 1883 by W. N. Caswell and F. Buckley.  The company specialized in the production ... Read more
The Wolf House located in the Industrial Area of Old Cowtown Museum, represents a dwelling on the outskirts of town and a type of home where a new immigrant would live as they began their lives on the frontier. Many immigrants found this ... Read more
The Livery Stable, located in the Industrial Area of Old Cowtown Museum, represents transportation, communication and economic development in Wichita and Sedgwick County during the 1870s.  The Livery Stable was one of the businesses crucia... Read more
The Masonic Lodge Hall is located in the Industrial Area of Old Cowtown Museum.  It represents the Freemasons, a civic and social group consisting of men of all occupations from the surrounding area.   They came together to talk about l... Read more
The J.P. Allen Drug Store, located in the Business District at Old Cowtown Museum represents the the formal health practice of the 1870s. There was a close relationship between the increasingly scientific medical and pharmaceutical practi... Read more
The Land Office, located in the Business District of Old Cowtown Museum, represents the transfer and dispersal of land in early Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas.  There were two types of land in the Wichita area and two types of land o... Read more
The McKenzie House located in the Residential Area of Old Cowtown Museum is representative of a rental property within the city. The House interprets a rented house occupied by a single middle-class schoolteacher.  The woman possibly wa... Read more
The Story and A Half House located in the Residential Area of Old Cowtown Museum is representative of a typical lower to middle class home of the late 19th century. The Story-and-a-Half House is an exhibit represents family life in the 187... Read more
The Murdock House, located in the Residential Area of Old Cowtown Museum, represents a comfortable middle class Victorian household in 1870s Wichita.   It was the home of Marshall M. Murdock, his wife Victoria, and their three children. T... Read more
The Hodge House in the residential district of Old Cowtown Museum represents life of the an African-American family in early Wichita. The Hodge House was built by Wesley Hodge, an African-American blacksmith from 1878-1885. In 1880, Wesley... Read more
The First Presbyterian Church in the residential district at Old Cowtown Museum represents one of the social and religious organizations of the permanent residential community in Wichita during the 1870s. Churches played an important role i... Read more

 

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