Project

Conservation and Environmental Assessment

Division of Preservation and Access

Every year all the fourth graders in Ottawa experience school in 1910 at their class’s one-room school day.
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Every year all the fourth graders in Ottawa experience school in 1910 at their class’s one-room school day.

Courtesy of Franklin County Historical Society

Purchase of environmental monitoring equipment and HEPA-filtered vacuums to improve preventive conservation of the Franklin County Historical Society's rich permanent collection of 25,000+ museum artifacts, and 33,000+ manuscript and photograph collections, which represent the cultural history of Franklin County from the 1854 Kansas Territory-Missouri Border Wars to the present day.