News and Updates
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It’s Wamego Match Day!
OCTOBER 2 - 5, 2025 Prorated match on giftsup to $5,000 per organization per donor IN-PERSON EVENT OCTOBER 2RD | 7 AM - 7 PMIRON CLAD, 427 LINCOLN AVE STOP BY TO MINGLE AND MAKE YOURMATCH DAY DONATION ONLINE GIVING OCTOBER 2ND - 5TH12 AM - 11:59...
Alma Community Foundation’s Match Day
It’s fundraising season again, and I wanted to let you know that the Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards will be participating in both the Alma Community Foundation’s Match Day on August 26th and the Wamego Community Foundation Match Day on October 2nd.Dear Prairie Guards...
20th Anniversary Mitchell Farm and Prairie Celebration
The Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards wish to invite you to a celebration on June 21st, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the formation of our group and the completion of our 2019 Education Expansion Project. With your help, the Project has accomplished the following:...
Mount Mitchell’s Other Memorial
“In his early boyhood, one of life’s greatest adventures for George was to return to the land of his people. Grandfather Fielding was several times Mayor of Manhattan, a pillar in the community; Father Fielding was a proud graduate of the wheat fields, the local...
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...