Oketo Community Museum
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204 S. East Sreet Oketo, KS 66518 Map This! |
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| 785-744-3497 |
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| marshallcoks.com/oketo | |
| Hours: Jail is always open. Other buildings are open by appointment. | |
The main museum building is an 1884 store, with typical general merchandise displayed on the original counters and shelves. Other exhibits are an early telephone booth and switchboard, a barbershop, and a farm kitchen with a wood store, ice box, and cob box. The advertising curtain from the Oketo Opera House hangs on one wall. A group of Otoe Indian items includes armbands, moccasins and arrowheads. The Otoe reservation was 1 1/2 miles north of Oketo.
A few steps down the block in the restored bank building, the teller cages, safe, ledgers and adding machine look much the same as when they were in use 100 years ago. A block away the small stone jail (1895) has iron rings which once secured prisoners. Farm equipment from 1870 onward is also on display.
The jail may be visited at any time. The remaining buildings are open by appointment.