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The LOG CABIN RETREAT at Marshview is designed to provide you with comfort and amenities in a unique outdoor setting...
This can be your place to relax and rejuvenate. It also can be your base from which to explore new experiences.
 
The LOG CABIN RETREAT at Marshview is your place to enjoy.
The homepage of this website has described the LOG CABIN RETREAT as your special Bed & Breakfast experience. Access to the acreage is on only two miles of gravel road, coming from state and federal all-weather highways. You are in a unique outdoor setting, but you have all the creature comforts. Satellite television, with myriad viewing options. Comfortable modern log cabin furnishings. Unparalleled Great Plains nature views. This also can be a base from which you can leisurely venture out further.

Dining Room at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview

Log Cabin Dining Room & Kitchen Area
 

Bedroom at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview

Kitchen at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview
Log Cabin Guest Bedroom Log Cabin Kitchen Area
 
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Back view of the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview Bluebird House at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview Moonrise at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview Beautiful log cabin architecture - Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview A View of the Loft at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview Bedroom/Bathroom Facilities at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview
Back View Bluebird House Countryside Interior A view of the Loft Bedroom Bath
 
Your guest bedroom is furnished with a Select Comfort™ queen bed, complete with in-room claw-foot tub and a small washroom with lavatory and toilet. Across the hall for you is a bathroom with shower. The main great room has a living area with fireplace, satellite reception television (which has a separate TV extension in the guest bedroom), plus the dining area and kitchen.  A fascinating ceiling canoe with strategic lights adorns the area over the dining table. Wild animal trophies discreetly add outdoor ambience in the great room areas. West windows of the great room provide extraordinary views of the Jamestown Wildlife Refuge, marsh and lake below. An exterior door leads to the length-of-the-cabin elevated porch.
 
This well-appointed classic modern log cabin is made from some of the largest available Canadian logs!
 
An Optional Accommodation
LOG CABIN RETREAT at Marshview also has a separate Bunkhouse above the proprietors’ barn, which can accommodate up to 2 persons. The Bunkhouse includes a bedroom/living-kitchenette area and a bathroom with shower. The Bunkhouse may be especially suitable for hunters. It normally is rented without provided meals. The Bunkhouse offers two twin beds which can be converted into a king, a VCR/DVD, microwave, and refrigerator. The Bunkhouse is cozy, private, peaceful, beautiful, and private. It offers views of the land of bygone days when the West was wild and untamed.

Bunkhouse in Winter at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview

Bunkhouse
Bunkhouse Bedroom Bunkhouse Bathroom View from the Bunkhouse at the Log Cabin Retreat at Marshview
Bunkhouse Bedroom Bunkhouse Bathroom Bunkhouse View
 
North Central Kansas Farming, Ranching, and Rural Communities.
Not far away you can view dry-land 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 of the Kansas State Historical Society (18 miles northeast). 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. 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 southern edge of Republic County Kansas. 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 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 early in 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 many interesting things to see in Concordia, the county seat of Cloud County just south of Republic County.
 
There are numerous diverse pioneer stories in this ranching and farming area, which boasts several isolated natural sections.
 
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LOG CABIN RETREAT at Marshview — A Kansas Bed & Breakfast
Overlooking Jamestown Wildlife Refuge and “Sportsman’s Lake” salt marsh
Jim & Lynn Elliott, owners / hosts
Marshview address: 250 Xavier Road (south of Courtland), Jamestown, Kansas 66948
Business address: Elliott’s, 320 South Main, McPherson, Kansas 67460
Phone reservations and info:
1-800-324-8052, 1-800-324-8053, 620-241-2981, 620-241-6815, or 620-245-7774
Elliott personal E-mail: getaway@retreatlogcabin.com