Museums of Marysville, Kansas

Period Rooms

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The mezzanine of the museum contains seven period rooms:

• Victorian Room as it might have appeared in 1860s in the eastern United States.

• Majors, Waddell  & Russell room (founders of the Pony Express).

• Frank and Mary Marshall room (founders of Marysville and Marshall County, Kansas).

• The pony rider.

• The Barrett Hotel where the pony riders probably roomed.  (Now Ar-Ex Drug Store at 8th and Broadway.)

• A typical station kitchen.

• A telegraph room whose beginnings signaled the end of the Pony Express.

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