About Us
|
Cottonwood Ranch
14432 E US Hwy. 24 P.O. Box 13 Studley, Kansas 67740
Friends of the Cottonwood Ranch Board of Directors
|
|
In 1983 the State of Kansas purchased twenty-three acres of the John
Fenton Pratt ranch, which included the remaining ranch buildings. The
ranch, located just north of U.S. Highway 24 near the Sheridan-Graham
County line, is managed as a state historic site by the Kansas State
Historical Society. It is the society’s intention to restore all of the
structures and to interpret the contributions of English settlers in the
area, sheep ranching, and the range cattle business. This will be done
through static exhibits and a variety of “living history” programs. All
will be based upon the extensive records that gentleman rancher Fenton
Pratt left, as well as the outstanding collection of some six hundred
glass plates that amateur photographer Fenton Pratt made of the ranch
and are settlers from about 1885 through the 1930s.
Learn More at www.hwy24.org about traveling the U.S Highway 24 route through North Central and Western Kansas.
