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Odd
& Funny Roadside Kansas
Greyhound
Hall of Fame - Abilene, Kansas - See interesting displays of greyhounds
from ancient times to the present.
Harvey
House Museum - Florence, Kansas.
Geary
County Historical Society & Museums - Junction City, Kansas -
Living history craft demonstrations, art exhibitions, reenactments, lectures
and special programs are periodically presented at the museum
Museum
of Independent Telephony - Abilene, Kansas - 140 years of telephone
technology, including a collection of America's earliest telephones on
permanent loan from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
The
Geodetic Center of the United States,
Osbourne Kansas - determined by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The
Finney County Historical Museum - Garden City, Kansas - See a giant
hairball from a cow's stomach, the hairball weighs 55 pounds (when wet)
and was 38" in circumference.
The
Big Well
- Greensburg, Kansas - A 109-foot well was dug In 1887 it measures 32-feet
in diameter, also on display is a 1,000 lbs. Pallasite meteriorite from
a Kiowa County field
Garden
of Eden
, Lucas, Kansas - I could hear so many, as they go by, sing out, "What
is this?" Now they can read it, stop or go on, Just as they please. -S.P.
Dinsmoor
The
Kansas Barbed Wire Museum,
120 W. 1st Street, LaCrosse, KS - devoted solely to the history and legend
of this part of America often referred to as the “Devils Rope”. On exhibit
are over 2000 barbed wire varieties; including samples manufactured between
the years 1870 and 1890. Hundreds of antique fencing tools illustrate
the inventiveness of pioneers
The World's Largest
Prairie Dog -Oakley, Kansas - see the amazing 8,000-pound creature"
The
World's Largest Ball of Sisal Twine - Cawker City - Frank Stoeber
started this ball of twine on his farm in 1953. By 1957 it weighed 5,000
pounds, stood 8 feet high, and had 1,175,180 feet of twine on it. Stoeber
gave the ball to Cawker City in 1961 before his death in 1974.
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