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Spring Hill Ranch House at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

County: Chase

Date: Pre 2010

Place Name: Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve building

Short description: Limestone ranch house built into a hillside on the Spring Hill Farm and Stock Ranch, now part of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. The 11,000-acre preserve in the Flint Hills, established in 1996, represents a portion of the 170,000 acres of tallgrass prairie that once covered the central United States.

Key Words

Restoration

Flint Hills Scenic Byway

Flint Hills

Nature Preserve

Stone House

19th Century Structure

Kansas Scenic Byways

Historic Site

National Register of Historic Places

Historic Building

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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