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Beloit, Kansas

This unique and original schoolhouse, built in 1871, has been completely restored to 19th century style. The Living Library Museum features Old State Printer Books, Lorraine Wooster Editions, and other historic education materials. The school is authentic with such details as a pot-belly stove and dipper and a school bell.

MCGUFFEY readers set the standard in reading and literature.

The "POT BELLY" stove stood in the center surrounded by a metal jacket to act as a circulator and to protect those sitting nearest.

Very little school time was used to teach multiplication tables. Children sung them to each other out in the yard to the tune of "Yankee Doodle". States and capitals and their locations were sung to the tune of "Old Aunt Rody".

Honey Creek's sister school, Iowa 83 has been moved to Knott's Berry Farm in California.

This school is listed on the State and National Registers of Historical Places.

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Beloit Golf Course

9-Hole golf course with grass greens, putting green, driving range, rental carts, cart shed, golf shop and clubhouse with snack bar and restaurant.

Beloit, KS Golf Courses

St. John's Catholic Church

A structure built of native limestone completed in 1904 in the form of a Latin Cross of Romanesque and Gothic style. It was the first church built in the United States with flying buttresses and an entire stone ceiling. The twin towers are 100' tall, 108' including the crosses adorning each tower.

Beloit, KS Historic Churches

Beloit Recreation

Beloit has a well maintained system of parks and recreation facilities. The city has 4 parks covering 50.2 acres. There are six reservoirs and lakes within 60 miles of Beloit, the closest being Waconda Lake located 11 miles west. Beloit's annual events include a county-wide 4

Beloit, KS Recreation

Mitchell County Museum

The museum, organized in 1971, has four floors of displays featuring historical items of Mitchell County. The building was formerly a nurses home built in 1929 in a "Williamsburg" design. Displays include: Dishes, quilts, guns, china head dolls, iron toys, old maps, 400 bells, an 1867

Beloit, KS Museums

Little Red Schoolhouse

This unique and original schoolhouse, built in 1871, has been completely restored to 19

Beloit, KS Historic Schoolhouses

Things to do near Beloit, KS

Osborne County Pioneers Memorial

Cedar Bluff Cabins

Wilson Hiking and Nature Trails

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