Cloud County Historical Museum

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Cloud County Historical Museum, September 2007
Cloud County Historical Museum, September 2007

The Cloud County Historical Museum is located in Concordia, Kansas. The Museum preserves and exhibits objects and documents of historical items representing early-day Kansas. It is housed in the former 1908 Andrew Carnegie Library building and an annex.

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[edit] Items on Display

The treasures of Cloud County, Kansas are exhibited for your viewing - nature, radio, railroads, quilts, photography, toys, vintage clothing and furniture, musical instruments, fossils, tools, and stained glass.

Displays in the annex include the "must see" 1908 Lincoln-Page Airplane, an 1898 Holsman belt driven horseless carriage, and a 1915 Model T Ford.

[edit] Records Maintained

[edit] Camp Concordia

Main article: Camp Concordia

Records are on display of Camp Concordia, the World War II military prisoner of war camp located in Cloud County. There are also original paintings of former prisoners of war on display and many other items of interest about Camp Concordia.

[edit] Other Records

Other records, churches, organizations, schools, and businesses. Displays of glass cutting, rare coins and books, rock and gem shop, micro-film of county newspapers and many others too numerous to list.

[edit] External links