Big Well Museum

The well was dug by hand in 1887 and 1888 for the new town and the Santa Fe railroad, which it served until 1895. Finished, it was 109 feet deep and 32 feet across, and Greensburg drew its water from it until 1932. It survived the tornado of May 4, 2007, and the museum over it opened on May 26, 2012.

The other reason to stop is the Space Wanderer, a pallasite meteorite of about 1,000 pounds, half iron and half stone, with yellowish olivine crystals set in the metal. It is part of the Brenham meteorite. In 1882 Eliza Kimberly began collecting strange heavy rocks on her family's land near Brenham in Kiowa County, and since then scientists and hunters have taken more than three tons of the same meteorite, which broke apart on its way down. H. O. Stockwell of Hutchinson found this mass in 1949 on the Ellis Peck farm east of Greensburg, using a device like a mine detector, and dug it out with hand tools. In 2005 another hunter's detector located a 1,400-pound oriented pallasite in the same county, shaped by the heat of its fall; only two larger meteorites of that type are known.

The Space Wanderer was shown in the old museum beside the well. In 2007 that building fell down around it, and it was dug out of the rubble and moved into the new building. The museum lends free bicycles and maps for a tour of the rebuilt town.