News and Events from the Greater Garden City Area
Volunteer Shelia Hendershot portrays Reba Hutchison, wife of Kansas Supreme Court Justice William E. Hutchison, during the 2016 Historic Walking Tours of Valley View Cemetery. Tickets are available now at the Finney County Historical Museum. Courtesy photo. Tickets will go on sale at 9 a.m. Sept. 28 for the Finney […]
The Finney County Historical Society’s annual pre-Labor Day spare rib sale is under way as a fund-raising endeavor to support exhibits, educational programs, research efforts and artifact preservation at the Finney County Museum. While a number of FCHS activities have been called off or curtailed due to COVID-19 precautions, organizers […]
The Finney County Historical Museum’s 11th Annual Flea Market Festival in Garden City is still going to take place for 2020, but it will be extensively reduced in size as a pandemic precaution, with social distancing practices in place for the benefit of the public. The gathering has drawn crowds […]
The Historic William Fulton House, located southwest of the Finney County Museum inside Garden City’s Lee Richardson Zoo, will open for weekend visits June 27. The folk Victorian style home, built in 1884, is owned and operated by the Finney County Historical Society. Plans call for the structure to be […]
Three new members have joined the Finney County Historical Society Board of Directors after an election for the 22 person governing body of the 72-year old organization, and nine returning members have been re-elected for additional two-year terms. The new members include Nikki Geier, who will fill out the […]
The Finney County Historical Museum is closed as of March 30 in compliance with the statewide stay-at-home executive order issued by Governor Laura Kelly. The museum closed exhibits on March 24, but continued office and research operations. Offices have now closed as well. In addition, all planned museum events have […]
Advance registration is under way in the Eighth Annual Southwest Kansas Antiques Appraisal Fair, set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 14 in the Finney County 4-H Building on the fairgrounds in Garden City. Though not affiliated with the popular PBS program, the event operates much like “Antiques Road […]
The next program coming up in the Finney County Historical Museum’s series of Brown Bag Lunch and Evening at the Museum lectures IN Garden City is set for 7 p.m. Feb. 18, featuring the El Quartelejo pueblo site in Scott County. Prior to the program, the museum will be closed […]
Visitors to the Finney County Historical Museum in Garden City can see over 100 vintage pieces of Fire King, Glasbake and Pyrex dinner and kitchenware in a colorful new exhibit entitled “What’s in Your Cabinet?” Assembled by Museum Education Coordinator Johnetta Hebrlee, the display is located in the museum’s Front […]
The next two programs are coming up Feb. 12 and 18 in the Finney County Historical Museum’s series of Brown Bag Lunch and Evening at the Museum lectures. Brown Bag Lunch presentations take place at noon the second Wednesday of January, February, March, April and May. Evenings at the Museum […]
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