Fort Wallace Museum

Nothing of Fort Wallace stands but its cemetery. The museum the Fort Wallace Memorial Association built in the town of Wallace makes up for it by collecting what else survived in the county and moving it here. The main museum, in a renovated limestone building, holds the fort's relics and a three-quarter-scale street front of the post and early Wallace. Its interpretation leans on the fort's old boast, the Fightin'est Fort in the West, and on the language of settlers defending against raids; the Cheyenne and Lakota were fighting for hunting grounds the trails cut through, as the museum's own history concedes.

Just west stands the Pond Creek Station, a two-story frame building of 1865 believed to be the oldest built structure in northwest Kansas and the only stage company building of the Butterfield Overland Despatch left in the state. It has been moved more than once, in 1871 and 1898, and now sits about half a mile from where it began; it went on the National Register in 1972, already a museum building.

The Weskan depot replaced Wallace's own, which burned. Bethany Lutheran Church was built in 1888 by the Swedish colony of Stockholm south of Weskan, moved later to Weskan, and moved again to these grounds in 2014; a hundred people came from as far as Oregon for its first service here, on April 19, 2015. The Sunderland-Poe building of 2003 holds two restored Conestoga wagons, sleighs, buggies, farm machines and animals made entirely of barbed wire, and the collection counts more than sixty reed organs.