Places of Interest
Throughout the Solomon Valley
Taking a Drive…
 
Sunday afternoon drives–remember them? They were an excuse for the family to be together. Without going too far, think of “Going West” on 24. “Venturing East” on 24. Our neighbors in the Solomon Valley offer close to home destinations.
Rediscover Your Heritage,
Rediscover Kansas!​
The Highway 24 research project revealed that encouraging tourists was a goal from the beginning– over 90 years ago. Cars were new, good roads were new, and visiting was encouraged. Simple pleasures. Their time may have come again.
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The following community Information is organized by town from West US24 to East​.
​Hoxie       View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food – Hospital – Airport - Golf Course
  • County seat of Sheridan County
  • 1917 Courthouse 
  • WPA Football Stadium 
  • Mickey's Museum 

Tasco 
  • Unusual grain elevator 
  • An old lumber yard & depot used for storage 
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Studley
  • Cottonwood Ranch - State & National Historical Site (NHR) 
  • 1910 Historic Studley Church 
  • filling station 

Morland  Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food
  • Citizens State Bank building - with a great relief of a woman studying fossils on the front of the bank. 
  • Inside the bank you can also enjoy the Floyd Riggs Memorial Comic Book Collection composed of 164 Golden Era Western and Adventure comics of the photographic and painted cover type. 
  • Prairie Junction, an old drugstore now used as a meeting place.  It's filled with interesting memorabilia. 
  • 1920's Dry Goods 
  • Grocery store - serves made-to-order deli sandwiches 
  • Antelope Lake - a WPA project 
  • Metal trestle pony bridge in City Park

Penokee
  • Old white fram Methodist Church 
  • Brick schoolhouse (now a junk store) 

Hill City      View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food – Hospital – Airport - Golf Course
  • County seat of Graham County 
  • Oil Museum 
  • Many Post Rock Homes (no tours) 
  • A 1930's City Park built as a WPA project 

Bogue
     Services: Food
  • Wildhorse Township Hall was a WPA work project, as was the water tower. 

Nicodemus     View > Historical Images
  • Historical Marker: Black "Exoduster" site & National Historic Site (NHR) 
  • Wagon tours 
  • Nicodemus Historical Society Museum 
  • 1939 Township Hall - WPA project 
  • Nicodemus Flour Co-op   (877) 271-2411, Email: nfcoop@ruraltel.net 
PO Box 187, Nicodemus KS 67625
Flour & pancake mix available by mail order and at Ernestine's Bar-B-Q in Bogue.

Damar 
     Services:  Food – Lodging
  • Home of the beautiful St Joseph's Catholic Church 
  • Wood Carving Exhibit - old Station, east of RR 

Webster State Park & Lake
  • Fishing, hunting, swimming, camping, boating 

Stockton     View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food – Airport - Golf Course
  • County seat of Rooks County 
  • Rooks County Historical Museum 
  • Downtown historic Nova Theatre - tours by appointment 
  • The Waller-Coolbaugh early 20th Century House - 421 N. Walnut
    (tours in Summer, Sat. & Sun.) 
    
Woodston      View > Historical Images
  • Historic Bank Building 
  • Rural Ash Rock Church 
  • Once home to the historic Thomas Barn 
  • Woodston Camp, Assembly of God  

Alton       View > Historical Images
  • Birthplace of candymaker Russell Stover - 14 miles S of town 
  • Hartzler's old fashion hardware store---still open 
  • The Alton Bluffs 
  • Historic 1886 IOOF Hall--downtown (NHR) 

Bloomington 
  • Historical Marker: Last Indian Fight in Osborne County
  • 1878 One-room stone schoolhouse--mid town 
  • Tilden-Bloomington Historical Marker--downtown 
  • Last Indian Raid Marker--one mile E of town on Hwy 24 

Osborne   View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food – Hospital – Airport - Golf Course
  • County seat of Osborne County 
  • The Osborne County Courthouse is magnificent (NHR) 
  • The Carnegie Research Library - 307 W. Main (NHR) 
  • WPA Scout cabin 
  • Geodetic Center State Historical Marker--Jct. Hwy 24 & 281 
  • Pennsylvania Stockade Site Historical Marker--1 mile E of town 
  • Arlington town site Historical Marker--3 miles W of town 
  • Osborne County Historical Museum - 929 N. 2nd; Easter to Thanksgiving; 
  • 2-4pm Mon-Thur; by appointment 785-346-2798 

Portis       View > Historical Images
  • Porky Pig Marker--statue in honor of Mil Millar, original illustrator of Porky Pig, in City Park beside Hwy 281 

Downs    Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food – Hospital – Golf Course
  • Historical Marker: The Ise family & "Sod and Stubble”
  • Historic Ise Family homestead and schoolhouse 
  • Home of the Kansas Storytelling Festival 
  • Downs Carnegie Library - downtown (NHR)  
  • The Downs Depot is being restored. It's a fine old brick Missouri Pacific station on the National Register of Historic Places. 

Cawker City 
     Services: Food – Lodging – Golf Course
  • World Famous Ball of Twine 
  • Historical Marker Waconda Springs
  • Waconda Lake
  • Wisconsin Street National Historic District (NHR) 
  • United Methodist Church Organ
  • Hesperian Library 

Glen Elder        View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food
  • Statue of Liberty in downtown square 
  • The Castle Service Station - downtown (NHR) 
  • Glen Elder Dam/Waconda Lake   Waconda Lake Association  |  Glen Elder State Park 
          Services: Camping
  • Waconda Heritage Village - Hopewell Church 
  • Waconda Springs Replica - Just south of Park office
  • Fishing, hunting, swimming, camping, marina, boating 

Solomon Rapids

Beloit        View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food – Hospital – Airport - Golf Course
  • County seat of Mitchell County 
  • Butterfield Buffalo Ranch--vehicle viewing only 
  • (4 miles W of Hwy 24 & 14 Jct. - 2 miles N and 1/4 W) 
  • Mitchell County Museum - 402 W 8th 
  • Little Red Schoolhouse - Hwy 24 (NHR) 
  • St. John's Catholic Church - 701 E Court (NHR) 
  • General Store Antiques & Museum 
  • Mitchell County Courthouse - Main & Hersey (NHR) 
  • Trojan Stadium - WPA work project 
  • Swimming Pool
  • 2 historical homes & Victorian homes (no tours)

Asherville
  • Grain elevator 
  • Rock schoolhouse on old highway 24 between Asherville & Beloit 

Simpson       View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food
  • Historical bank building

Glasco        View > Historical Images
     Services: Gas – Lodging – Food
  • Cloud County Stained Glass Capital - tours 
  • Glasco Historical Museum 
  • Hodge-Podge - Historic Soda Fountain - open M-F 9-5; Sat 9-4 
  • Old bridge near Glasco (NHR) 
  • Glasco's Historic Downtown District (NHR)