News and Updates
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13th Annual Mount Mitchell Farm & Prairie Celebration
CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER Dear Prairie Guards & Friends of Mount Mitchell,Due to muddy trail conditions at the Park the 13th Annual Mitchell Farm & Prairie Celebration has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for this fall. If it’s not raining there will...
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...
September 2021, DOUBLE MATCH again!
The Prairie Guards have again received generous challenge grants from the Miller/Hammond and HHM Charitable Foundations! Their gifts totaling $50,000 will retire our mortgage and the match we raise will be used as matching funds for additional grants that will allow...
Prairie Guards Reach Goal
Dear Prairie Guards and Friends of Mount Mitchell. I have good news; it’s time to celebrate! Thanks to the generosity of our many donors, we reached a milestone on Monday June 3rd when we became the new owners of the former Mitchell meadow and farmland next to the...