Located in the Museum Complex, the Old Edwards Hotel was cut into three sections for moving in 1909, when all buildings in the old town were loaded on skids and moved three miles across the prairie to the present location of Ulysses. This part of the hotel is still standing, the remains of the last business building moved from the old town.
It has been restored to its original appearance, as the rooms are cleverly "disarranged" as though the occupant just stepped away and will be right back.
Come and see the wheel ruts of the famous 60 mile "Jornada" Trail, a stretch of arid prairie between the Arkansas and Cimarron Rivers referred to by early Spanish explorers as the "jornada de muerte" or journey of death
Ulysses, KS LandmarksThe Grant County Museum is housed in a handmade adobe structure built for a county shop in the 1930s as a WPA project. The museum is now on the State Register of Historic Places.
Ulysses, KS MuseumsWagon Bed Springs, sometimes called Lower Cimarron Springs, on the Cimarron River in Southwest Kansas afforded the first water during the dry season on the 60
Ulysses, KS Pioneer HistoryCool off during those hot, Kansas summer days at the Grant County Swimming Pool Complex. The Complex has an outdoor olympic-size pool with diving area, two kiddie and toddler pools, and an olympic-size, heated, indoor lap pool.
Ulysses, KS RecreationLocated in the Museum Complex, the Old Edwards Hotel was cut into three sections for moving in 1909
Ulysses, KS Historic Hotels