Sightseeing
Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site
No admission feeA Kansas Historical Society site preserving a late 1700s Pawnee village, with an earth lodge floor and museum exhibits.
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World's Largest Ball of Twine
Wrap your own strand of sisal twine around a 27,000-pound ball sheltered in a roadside gazebo in Cawker City.
Shelter on Wisconsin St (US-24) · Cawker City, KS
About World's Largest Ball of Twine
Farmer Frank Stoeber started rolling leftover hay-bale twine in 1953, and the ball came to Cawker City in 1961. It now sits in an open-air gazebo on Wisconsin Street, weighs over 27,000 pounds and keeps growing because visitors add to it. The town's twine caretaker can give you a tour and your own sisal twine to wrap, and the town holds a Twine-a-Thon on the third weekend of August.
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What's around here?
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Republic County Historical Society
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Mushroom Rock State Park
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