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Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum

209 West Fowler Avenue
Medicine Lodge, KS 67104

620-886-3553

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Journey with us to a time in our country's past where life was hard but hope for a better future was strong. The promise of new life in the west called many families to leave everything familiar behind. Pioneers were seeking a new land of opportunity where one could homestead and raise a family. Stockades became the gathering place of protection for these pioneers during troubled times. Within the stockade walls communities were built and friendships were forged as everyone daily worked together to provide adequate food and clothing for each family. At the close of the day families gathered together to spend time singing hymns and thanking the Lord for another day of safety. Occasionally, special events were celebrated with fiddle music and dancing.

The Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum gives you a taste of what life was like in a stockade in the 1870's.

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