ABILENE ATTRACTIONS
- Abilene Civic Center: Restored 1928 Union Pacific Depot. Home to the Kansas Visitors Info Center. For more information call 785-263-2231.
- The Eisenhower Center: General Dwight David Eisenhower's boyhood home, Library, Museum, and Place of Meditation. 785-263-4751
- National Greyhound Association: The single registry for all racing greyhounds in North America. Hosting a spring and fall meet, for young greyhounds from around the nation to compete against each other. 785-263-4660
- Greyhound Hall of Fame: Complete history of the racing greyhound, from 5000 B.C. to the present. 785-263-3000
- Dickinson County Historical Society: Home of an original, working CW Parker Carousel. Museum includes exhibits from the Indian, Pioneer, Railroad, Cowtown, Agricultural, and Victorian eras. 785-263-2681
- Museum of Independent Telephony: History of the last 100 years of telephone technology. 785-263-2681
- Kansas Sports Hall of Fame: Dedicated to great athletes from the state of Kansas. 785-263-7403
- Great Plains Theater Festival: Home of professional theater in Abilene. 785-263-4574
- The Writers Pad, Inc.: Saturday seminars for creative writers. In services for schools & community organizations. Bereavement services, consultation & groups. 785-263-7434
- Abilene & Smokey Valley Railroad: Excursion train ride through rural Dickinson County. 785-263-1077
- Old Abilene Town & Museum: Abilene as it was in the cowboy era. 785-263-4194
- Fashion Museum: Fashions from days gone by. 785-263-7997
- Hall of Generals: Wax figures of famous WW11 Generals. 785-263-4194
- Seelye Mansion: This twenty-five room Georgian mansion was built by patent medicine entrepreneur A.B. Seelye in 1905. 785-263-1084
- Kirby House Restaurant: Restored Victorian home of Thomas Kirby , built in 1885. It remained a home until 1914 when it was sold to the Abilene Commercial Club ( the forerunner to the Abilene Chamber of Commerce ). In the mid 1980's Terry & Jerry Tietjens purchased the home and opened it as a restaurant. 785-263-7336
Special thanks to The Abilene Convention & Visitors Bureau for their help with this page. 785-263-2231 / 1-800-569-5915
Email: rah@access-one.com
