Retreat Log Cabin at Marshview - Comfort & Relaxation
The RETREAT LOG CABIN bed-and-breakfast home with all the facility options are designed to provide you with comfort and amenities in a unique outdoor setting…
This can be your place to relax and rejuvenate. Also, it can be your base from which to explore new experiences.
This is your place to enjoy.
No matter what accommodations options you choose, this can be your Great Plains experience to enjoy. This also can be a base from which to leisurely venture out further.
North Central Kansas Farming, Ranching, and Rural Communities.
Not far away you can view dryland and irrigated farming, and
small-scale ranching and cattle-feeding. You might experience some
of several nearby small-town communities, with their churches, small
businesses, and commendable values. A number of these have been
focus-centers for social scientists, demographers, politicians,
writers, photographers, historians, and just plain tourists and
visitors. (Agri-tourism is just getting started in the state,
following the lead of Iowa and elsewhere.)
Rural north central Kansas can be the heart of a good life!
Out of the pages of “Yester-year.” No, the Lone Ranger was not here. But real-life Native Americans
certainly were — in far greater number than you probably could
imagine. Soak up history of Plains Native Americans by reading, or
by visiting the historic Pawnee Indian Village museum and
preservation <www.kshs.org/places/pawneeindian/index.htm> of the
Kansas State Historical Society (20 miles north). See other historic
sites (some are unmarked). Imagine “what once was.”
Area Attractions.
For area or Kansas state information, you could stop at the State visitor information center in Belleville (22 miles northeast). Local museums are at Scandia, Belleville, Concordia, and other towns and villages. Several libraries are in the area. Antique and unique shops, coffee shops, and restaurants are all just a short drive. Immigrants and settlers made their marks here for modern times, although civilization in this part of Kansas may have slowed a bit.
Typical rural and outdoor Kansas scenic views are everywhere.
Historical Notes.
We are at the southwestern edge of Republic County. The nearby
thriving farming village of Courtland, the near-ghost-town of
Kackley (but with an active nearby rural Lutheran church), the
1869-immigrant-founded Norway, and historic Scandia are all
communities settled by Scandinavians, English, and other groups of
pioneers. The county itself was organized in 1868, and the county
seat is in Belleville. It received its name from the Republican
River running through the county, so named because many years ago
the valley of that stream was the seat of the "Pawnee Republic," a
designation given to a principal division of the Pawnee Indians
originally known as Panis.
In 1869 many wayward Swedish immigrants from an original party led by Pastor Olof Olsson, seeking to establish Lindsborg in the Smoky Valley of central Kansas (95 miles south), stopped in Missouri during their emigration from Värmland Province in Sweden. Fearful of Native American attack rumors at that time coming out of Kansas, more than half of the Olsson party stopped instead to settle north of Bucklin, Missouri — but most of them eventually continued into this north central Kansas area to establish homes and farms.
You also can find museums in Scandia and especially in Bellville, among numerous interesting things to see. Also, you probably will want to visit lively Concordia, the county seat of Cloud County, the county adjacent to the south.
There are numerous diverse pioneer stories in this ranching and farming area, which boasts several isolated natural sections.