Edwards County Historical Museum and Sod House
By jbottero
(2025-05-01)
The Edwards County Historical Society and Sod House museum opened in May, 1967. Located in Kinsley, Kansas, the complex consists of a historical church, a museum with an enclosed sod house, antique farm machinery, and the Midway U.S.A. sign.
A sod house was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of North America in the 1800s and early 1900s.
The museum is also home to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Number 3424 steam engine built in 1921, a 4-6-2 "Pacific" type built by Baldwin in 1919. It pulled trains across the ATSF system throughout it's time. It now sits on display in Kinsley, Kansas.