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illsboro Kansas has two museums, the Mennonite Settlement Museum
and the William F. Schaeffler House Museum. To find your way to
Hillsboro go to the contact us page. Both museums are managed by the
City of Hillsboro Museums department, "Hillsboro Museums."
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. Their story is told in the unique 1876 Peter Paul
Loewen House and the replica 1876 Jacob Friesen flouring windmill.
Later the town of Hillsboro was built as a railroad center for shipping
wheat to market. The city grew and prospered. A leading family
business in Hillsboro was the Schaeffler Mercantile Store. In 1909
prosperous William F. Schaeffler built a beautiful Queen Anne house,
now the William F. Schaeffler House Museum.
Tours of both museums start at the Hillsboro Museums Visitor Center
located west of the Mennonite Settlement Museum on Memorial Drive in
Hillsboro.
(620) 947 3775 or hillsboro_museums@yahoo.com
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