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Tourist attractions located outside the Wichita and south central Kansas area.
Big Brutus Just imagine an electric coal shovel 16 stories tall with a dipper capacity large enough to fill three railroad cars.
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site The site, which commemorate the landmark Supreme Court decision aimed at ending segregation in public schools, consists of the Monroe Elementary School and adjacent grounds.
Constitution Hall State Historic Site From within Constitution Hall the Lecompton Constitution fanned the flames that became the Civil War.
Cottonwood Ranch State Historic Site The stone house, constructed 1885-1896, and outbuildings, 1891-1892, symbolize English settlement and ranching on the High Plains of northwestern Kansas.
Country Boys Carriage and Prairie Adventures We like their motto which is "Have horses, have wagons, have cook-shack---will travel!"
Dodge City Raceway Park Enjoy car races on 3/8th or 1/16th mile long oval tracks.
Dwight D. Eisenhower Center Take a virtual tour, then plan a visit to Abilene, Kansas to see the Center, including the presidential library and the museum.
First Territorial Capitol
State Historic Site The museum features exhibits on the Kansas territorial period and statehood. Learn about volatile events of 1855, the first appointed governor Andrew Reeder, and early newspaper pioneer John Stringfellow.
Fort Hays State Historic Site Many well-known Indian Wars officers and units were stationed at the post including Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry and the famous Tenth Cavalry, whose black troopers were better known as buffalo soldiers. The site consists of four historic buildings that survive: the blockhouse (completed as the post headquarters in 1868), guardhouse, and two officers' quarters.
Fort Larned
National Historic Site With nine restored buildings, Fort Larned survives as one of the best examples of Indian Wars period forts.
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