Places of Interest throughout the Solomon Valley

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

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