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Barbed Wire Museum and The Post Rock Museum


Name: Barbed Wire Museum and The Post Rock Museum
Category: Cultural
Archive ID#: KS3134
 
Description: A museum devoted solely to barbed wire, displaying hundreds of exotic varieties, with information on the impact of barbed wire in the settlement of the midwest, in range wars between the homesteaders and cattlemen, and the transformation of the open prarie. The adjacent Post Rock museum exhibits the limestone fenceposts that supported the barbed wire fences.
Location: 155 miles NW of Wichita, in LaCrosse
(POINT(-99.3179 38.52442))
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Address: Main Street
LaCrosse KS, 67548
Visitor Info: 202 West 1st Street, La Crosse 67548.
Links: http://www.rushcounty.org/BarbedWireMuseum/BWtour.htm
LCS: Cultural, Museum
   
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