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Family FavoriteHyatt Place Kansas City/Overland Park/Metcalf
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MuseumsHistory BuffFamily Favorite
Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm
Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm is a museum in Olathe, KS, part of the Kansas City guide. Cost: under $25.
1100 Kansas City Road · Olathe, KS
Why you should go…
Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop & Farm preserves an 1865 limestone farmhouse that once served travelers on the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails just outside Kansas City. The 40-acre site today operates as a living-history museum with a working blacksmith shop, farm animals, and Civil War-era reenactments tied to the Bleeding Kansas period.
- #living history
- #stagecoach
- #santa fe trail
- #olathe
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