Join us – Saturday, June 3rd, 2023!
The 10th Annual Mitchell Farm & Prairie Celebration will celebrate springtime and paying off the mortgage on the recent expansion of the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park. The purchased acreage expanded the historic tallgrass prairie Park from 45 to 164 acres.
The event will be held on Saturday, June 3rd from 10 am till noon at the Park and the privately owned Mitchell Farmstead located at 29213 Mount Mitchell Road, Wamego. The farmstead’s log cabin was a station on the Underground Railroad from 1857 to 1861. Both the Park and Farmstead are recognized sites of the National Park Service’s Network to Freedom Program commemorating the Underground Railroad.
Last July, the ruts and swales of the Topeka Fort Riley Road, the farmstead, and the Park were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Historic District.
Saturday’s event will feature tours of the historic log cabin Underground Railroad station and docent-led wildflower walks at the Park located at 29377 Mitchell Prairie Lane, Wamego. The prairie is expected to be in full bloom after recent rains.
A box lunch will be served at 12:30 at the Beecher Bible & Rifle Church in Wabaunsee. Following lunch at 1:30, Courtney Masterson, Executive Director and Ecologist of Native Lands Restoration Collaborative will speak about prairie restoration efforts in Eastern Kansas.
For more information visit mountmitchellprairie.org
Mount Mitchell is located 3 & ½ miles south of Wamego or 5.5 miles north of I-70 on K-99
The Mitchell Farmstead is located at 29213 Mount Mitchell Road, Wamego
Wildflower walks will start at the east end of Mitchell Prairie Lane off Highway 99
The Beecher Bible & Rifle Church is located at Elm & Chapel in Wabaunsee, off K 18
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