This 1880s period tinsmith brick building features original tin ceiling. Permanent and changing displays feature stories of the Jim Lane Trail; E.D. Holton sponsored wagon train; railroads through all of the county towns; Campbell College; the Barnes Brothers and their baseball history; the Ream pop bottle factory; Wolverton rat trap factory; and veterans memorials. ROEBKE HOUSE MEMORIAL - 216 New
York - Holton KS 66436. Features Roebke family from the Victorian period through the 1970s. Original home built in 1876 by German immigrant Louis Roebke.. All three sisters - Rose, Charlotte, and Doris - graduated from Holton High and Campbell College in Holton. Their over 100-year-old graduation dresses are displayed. Rose (1877-1971) married William Volker, Kansas City industrialist. Charlotte Roebke was an early woman embalmer in Kansas. Doris majored in piano and organ at the University of Kansas and served as organist at the Holton Presbyterian church for over 70 year. JACKSON COUNTY RESEARCH FACILITY - 208 New York - Holton KS 66436. Houses genealogical and historical research materials from the 1850s to the present.
