WAMEGO — On Feb. 14, visitors to the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park, located south of Wamego, discovered that the hilltop monument to Captain William Mitchell and the Beecher Bible
Michael Stubbs of Eskridge, Kansas, a retired film industry location manager with a love of history, painstakingly researched the story of the Connecticut Kansas Colony, as these settlers were known.
From the Yellow Brick Road to the Oregon Trail, Wamego goes big on Kansas nostalgia with a Wizard of Oz Museum, nature parks, a Prairie Town Village, and more.