US Hwy 24 ... a Driving Tour your whole family will ENJOY!               Scroll Down or Select a town below to learn more about their communities amenities

Alton	Asherville	Beloit	Bloomington	Bogue	Cawker City
Damar	Downs	Glasco	Glen Elder	GE State Park	Hill City
Hoxie	Morland	Nicademus	Osborne	Penokee	Simpson
Solomon Rapids	Stockton	Studley	Tasco	Webster Res.	Woodston
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Taking a Drive… Sunday afternoon drives–remember them? They were an excuse for the family to be together. Without going too far, think of “Going West” on 24. “Venturing East” on 24. Our neighbors in the Solomon Valley offer close to home destinations. The Highway 24 research project revealed that encouraging tourists was a goal from the beginning– over 90 years ago. Cars were new, good roads were new, and visiting was encouraged. Simple pleasures. Their time may have come again.

Rediscover your heritage -- Rediscover Kansas!

 

Hoxie  Historical Images

• County seat of Sheridan County - 1917 Courthouse

• WPA Football Stadium

• Mickey's Museum

Tasco 

• Unusual grain elevator

• An old lumber yard & depot used for storage

Studley

• Cottonwood Ranch - State & National Historical Site (NHR)

• 1910 Historic Studley Church

• filling station

Morland  Historical Images

• Citizens State Bank building - with a great relief of a woman studying fossils on the front of the bank.
  Inside the bank you can also enjoy the Floyd Riggs Memorial Comic Book Collection composed of 164 Golden Era Western and Adventure comics of the photographic and painted cover type.

• Prairie Junction, an old drugstore now used as a meeting place.  It's filled with interesting memorabilia.

• 1920's Dry Goods

• Grocery store - serves made-to-order deli sandwiches

• Antelope Lake - a WPA project

• Metal trestle pony bridge in City Park

  Seven 2Bar Adventures - 785.627.5500, Email: maryg@ruraltel.net

  Hunting, fishing, riding, sight seeing

Penokee

• Old white fram Methodist Church

• Brick schoolhouse (now a junk store)

Hill City  Historical Images

• County seat of Graham County

• Oil Museum

• Many Post Rock Homes (no tours)

• A 1930's City Park built as a WPA project

• Davis Charolais - 785.421.5478, Mobile: 785.421.8780, Email: davischarolais@yahoo.com

  Guest ranch house, overnight livestock stopover, private hunting, Charolais & Braunvieh cattle

Bogue

• Wildhorse Township Hall was a WPA work project, as was the water tower.

Nicodemus   Historical Images

• Black "Exoduster" site & National Historic Site (NHR)

• Wagon tours

• Nicodemus Historical Society Museum

• 1939 Township Hall - WPA project

• Nicodemus Flour Co-op   (877) 271-2411, Email: nfcoop@ruraltel.net

PO Box 187, Nicodemus KS 67625
Flour & pancake mix available by mail order and at Ernestine's Bar-B-Q in Bogue.

Damar 

• Home of the beautiful St Joseph's Catholic Church

• Wood Carving Exhibit - old Station, east of RR

Webster State Park & Lake

• Fishing, hunting, swimming, camping, boating

Stockton  Historical Images

• County seat of Rooks County

• Downtown historic Nova Theatre - tours by appointment

• The Waller-Coolbaugh early 20th Century House - 421 N. Walnut (tours in Summer, Sat&Sun)

• Rooks County Historical Museum

Woodston   Historical Images

• Historic Bank Building

• Rural Ash Rock Church

• Once home to the historic Thomas Barn

• Woodston Camp, Assembly of God 

Alton   Historical Images

• Birthplace of candymaker Russell Stover - 14 miles S of town

• Hartzler's old fashion hardware store---still open

• The Alton Bluffs

• Historic 1886 IOOF Hall--downtown (NHR)

Bloomington 

• 1878 One-room stone schoolhouse--mid town

• Tilden-Bloomington Historical Marker--downtown

• Last Indian Raid Marker--one mile E of town on Hwy 24

Last Indian Fight in Osborne County


Osborne  istorical Images

• County seat of Osborne County

• The Osborne County Courthouse is magnificent (NHR)

• The Carnegie Research Library - 307 W. Main (NHR)

• Osborne County Historical Museum - 929 N. 2nd; Easter to Thanksgiving;
  2-4pm Mon-Thur; by appointment 785-346-2798

• WPA Scout cabin

• Geodetic Center State Historical Marker--Jct. Hwy 24 & 281

• Pennsylvania Stockade Site Historical Marker--1 mile E of town

• Arlington Townsite Historical Marker--3 miles W of town

Portis      Historical Images

• Porky Pig Marker--statue in honor of Mil Millar, original illustrator of Porky Pig, in City Park beside Hwy 281

Downs    Historical Images

• Home of the Kansas Storytelling Festival

• The Downs Depot is being restored. It's a fine old brick Missouri Pacific station on the National Register of Historic Places.

• The Ise family & "Sod and Stubble"

• Historic Ise Family homestead and schoolhouse

• Downs Carnegie Library - downtown (NHR)