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Mount Mitchell’s Other Memorial
MEMORIAL TO CAPTAIN FIELDING Alma Signal Enterprise June 5, 1947 The members of Ed. Palenske Post No. 32, of Alma, had charge of the Memorial Day services at the Wabaunsee Cemetery. After the Wabaunsee services the thirty-two members of the Post present went to...
It’s Wamego Match Day!
OCTOBER 3 - 5, 2024 Prorated match on giftsup to $5,000 per organization per donor IN-PERSON EVENT OCTOBER 3RD | 7 AM - 7 PMIRON CLAD, 427 LINCOLN AVE STOP BY TO MINGLE AND MAKE YOURMATCH DAY DONATION ONLINE GIVING OCTOBER 3RD - 5TH12 AM - 11:59...
Freedom’s Frontier NHA grant awarded to Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards
The Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards received $1,000 in grant funding from Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area. The award will help reprint the popular Park’s brochure, which is distributed locally and at Kansas Travel Information Centers across the state. The...
GRANT OPPORTUNITY UPDATES: Transportation Alternatives Grant
Shortly before the TA grant application deadline officials with the Kansas Department of Transportation determined that a different source of funds (state active transportation funds) would be the more appropriate funding source for the Highway 99 Pedestrian/Bike...
EXCITING GRANT OPPORTUNITY
Dear Friends and Neighbors and Supporters of the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park, We need your help. The Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards have been invited by the Kansas Department of Transportation to prepare an application for a federal Transportation Alternatives...
Hilltop Monument destroyed
On February 14th visitors to the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park south of Wamego discovered that the hilltop monument to Captain William Mitchell and the Beecher Bible and Rifle Colony had been toppled and destroyed. The nine-foot-tall limestone monolith had been...
Dear Prairie Guards and Friends of the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park
The board of the Prairie Guards is pleased to announce that Phase Two of our Education Expansion Project, also known as the Mount Mitchell Development Project, is well on its way to completion. The infrastructure improvements to the former Mitchell farmland we...
Prairie Guards to Resume Annual Celebration
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...
The Wamego Match Day was a great success!!
The Wamego Match Day was a great success. We raised just under our goal of $25,000. Thank you to all who contributed! For those who still wish to contribute to Phase Two of our Park development plan our focus has moved to the Emporia Community Foundation Match Day on...
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