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Cooper Barn
High Plains
Kansas
100
Built by museum volunteers in 1984, this represents a typical pioneer home.
What is the sod house?
100
The number of acres in one square mile.
What is 640 acres?
100
The Cooper Barn was originally part of this farm.
What is Foster Farms?
100
This law was enacted in 1862 to allow settlers to claim 160 acres of land.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
The commemorative event that took place on January 29, 1861.
What was the date Kansas became a state?
200
At one time, Thomas County had over 94 of these. Name the Prairie Museum's.
What are one-room schools? Nicol School.
200
The number of counties in Kansas.
What are 105 counties?
200
The honor bestowed on the Cooper Barn by the Kansas Sampler Foundation.
What is an 8th Wonder of Kansas Architecture?
200
This mail and freight service operated along the Smoky Hill Trail in the 1860s.
What was the Butterfield Overland Dispatch?
200
The 34th President of the United States who was from Abilene.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
300
The name of the church at the Prairie Museum.
What is the Lone Star Presbyterian Church?
300
A football field is a fair estimate of this unit of land measurement.
What is an acre?
300
The cattle breed raised at Foster Farms.
What were registered Hereford cattle?
300
This storm of 1886 killed several people, including Alfred and Fred Gould.
What was a blizzard?
300
This highway system runs east and west along 39 degree latitude.
What is Interstate 70?
400
The name of the building at the Prairie Museum that was built by George & Pearl Tubbs in Levant in 1916.
What is the Vacin Barn?
400
This political entity is 30x36 miles.
What is Thomas County?
400
The breed of horse raised at Foster Farms that was sold to Anheuser Busch.
What are Clydesdale horses?
400
This rugged landscape in Cheyenne County is composed of windblown dust particles, called loess, that were deposited during the Ice Ages.
What are the Arikaree Breaks?
400
This river forms the northeast border of Kansas.
What is the Missouri River?
500
Originally built on the corner of 4th and Grant in 1903, this building spent most of its life south of Colby.
What is the Eller House?
500
The Beaver, Sappa and Prairie Dog flow into this river basin.
What is the Republican?
500
The year when the barn was moved to the Prairie Museum site.
What is 1992?
500
The Native American tribe massacred at Sappa Creek in 1875.
Who were the Cheyenne or Tsistsistas?
500
The curve of Interstate 70 from Oakley to Colby is nicknamed this.
What is the Lauterbach Curve?