Sheridan County Historical Society & Mickey's Museum - Hoxie, Kansas The Sheridan County Historical Society & Mickey's Museum in Hoxie, Kansas was started by hardware store owner Vernon Mickey and the main building was built in 1963 as a replica of an early hardware store. In 1994 the museum was donated to the county and the Historical Society became caretakers of the collection. The museum has various items from around Sheridan County, with the largest collections appearing to be uniforms from Hoxie High School and Sheridan Community High School. Other than some early photographs of Hoxie, the thing I found most interesting was a collection of firearms. There is also a room devoted to Family History & Genealogy research, which may be the most used part of the museum. It appears that the former McGraw Methodist Church has been moved to the corner near the museum parking lot, but the building was not open and the staff in the museum said nothing about it. Unless they have a connection to Sheridan County, I believe that the typical visitor will by satisfied with less than 30 minutes at the museum.
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