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Lighting Freedom's Pathway Building Heritage & Culture
Shawnee County Historical Society
Cox Communications Heritage Education Center
The Historic John & Mary Jane Ritchie House
and the Bleeding Kansas era
1116-1118 SE Madison Avenue
P.O. Box 2201
Topeka, KS 66601
Phone: 785-234-6097
Emergency Phone: 785-224-4156
Historic Ritchie House Public Tours
Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 9 am to 1 pm
Other times of the week, Call 785 234 6097
Suggested Admission Fee for Ritchie House
$.50 Students, $2.00 Adults.
Our Fall Walking tours will get underway this month
August 21st at 3pm Tour of the Hicks Block Apartments at 6th and Tyler with Bryan Falk
September 18th at 3pm We will tour Mount Hope Cemetery with Ben Coates and
October 9th at 12:30pm we will have a presentation and tour of the Topeka Zoo with Zoo Horticulturalist Rick Knight
Presentations at the Cox Center at 3pm
November 6th Brittany Crabtree Stiffler on Topeka Collegiate celebrating 40 years
November 13th David Randall on his new Book
Monster Bones which features Barnum Brown of Carbondale
November 20th 3pm Discussion on Abandoned Topeka Emily Cowan
All events are free to Historical Society members and non members will be assessed $5 a piece to participate.
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Are you interested in Lithographs of Old Areas of Shawnee county. We have five of them for sale for $15 a piece plus shipping and handling.
Click here to see the view of Tecumseh in 1869.
Click here to see old Topeka Buildings
Click here to see Topeka in 1869
Click Here to see Topeka in 1880
Click here to see a Map of the Great Plains
If you are interested call 785 234 6097 or send us an email at shawneecountyhistory@gmail.com
Please help the Society by signing up with Amazon Smiles or Dillon's and designate your purchases to help the Society. It won't cost you a thing and will help us. Click here and scroll down the page to see how to sign up.
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