Mennonite Settlement Museum
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| Mennonite Settlement Museum 501 S. Ash Hillsboro, KS 67063 Map This! |
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| 620-947-3775 |
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| www.hillsboro-museums.com/index.html | |
| hillsboro_museums@yahoo.com | |
| Admission: Adults: $3.00, Students: $1.00 | |
| Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00, | |
At the Mennonite Settlement Museum visitors experience the history of pioneer life on the prairies of western Marion County Kansas. Here in the early 1870s immigrant refugee Mennonites came from south Russia and central Poland. The historic Peter Paul Loewen House: A traditional Russian clay brick house built in 1876 in the Mennonite settlement village of Hoffnungsthal. It is the last remaining house of its kind in North America. The house was long known as the Adobe House. The Jacob Friesen Flouring Windmill: A detailed replica of the 1876 mill that stood in the Mennonite settlement village of Gnadenau. The 1886 One Room Kreutziger School, in service from 1886 to 1960.