The Historic Ritchie House
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Public Tour Times
Tuesday through Thursday 9am to 1pm
Suggested Admission Fee
.50 Students
2.00 Adults
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Other Programs by Zoom this year
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Cheryl Brown Henderson at 3pm February 19th
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​February 26th 3pm
Dave Fisher discusses
Abolitionist Rev. Fisher
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​Curtis Pitts March 5th On the past, present and future of Topeka Technical School.
March 12th
Topeka Show and Tell on
All programs are free to Historical Society members however non members will be asked to donate $5 to attend.
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Home of John and Mary Jane Ritchie
Kansas Territorial Settlers of Topeka
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Cox Communications
Heritage Education Center
Shawnee County Historical Society
1116 and 1118 SE Madison Street
Topeka, Kansas 66601
785-234-6097
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Learn about the Bleeding Kansas era of the 1850's. And see an Underground Railroad Site and learn about the quest for Freedom before the Civil War.
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Thursday night, February 9th, A symposium was held at the Cox Center next to the Ritchie House about the Underground Railroad. Click here for the story from KSNT:
The Shawnee County Historical Society formed in 1946. It's founders recognized the need to preserve the facts and legends of the early days of our county up to more recent times.
The Historic Ritchie House
and Cox Communications Heritage Education Center
Shawnee County Historical Society
1116 and 1118 SE Madison Ave
P.O. Box 2201 Topeka, Kansas 66601
785 234-6097
Educational Resource Links
The Shawnee County Historical Society and the Ritchie Education Initiative have created quick resource links for research. Both students and teachers will find these resources to be of great assistance for Kansas studies. Click here for a link to the Shawnee County Historical Society's education resource page.
Additional Online Research
Shawnee County Historical Society
Kansas Historical Society
Kansas Memory
Territorial Kansas Online
Historic Sites and Museums
Arabia Steamboat Museum
Black Jack Battlefield
Brown v Topeka Board of Education National Historic Site
Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area
Kansas Museum of History
Film and Historic Performance
Kansas Alliance of Professional Historical Performers
Lone Chimney Films
LvngHstry
