Visitation increases at John Brown Museum State Historic Site

Grady Atwater

Osawatomie’s association with John Brown and Bleeding Kansas attracted 4,

611 visitors to the John Brown Museum State Historic Site during 2010, and

increases of 303 visitors over the 4,308 visitors to the John Brown Museum

State Historic Site in 2009. The combined efforts of museum staff and

community volunteers working together built up the visitor count via

promotional efforts and events. Visitation at the John Brown Museum State

Historic Site has increased dramatically since 2005, when 2,193 visitors

visited the John Brown Museum State Historic Site, an increase from 2005

to 2010 of 2,418 visitors.

Osawatomie’s history and heritage is of national and international

importance, and visitors from all over the world travel to Osawatomie and

the John Brown Museum State Historic Site to walk where John Brown walked,

and visit the town’s historic sites. Visitors from Germany, Great Britain,

Thailand, and China, and many other nations have travelled to Osawatomie.

International visitors often tell museum staff and volunteers that they

studied the historic events that occurred in and around Osawatomie in

their schools in their respective countries.

In addition, visitors from all over the nation travel to Osawatomie to

learn more about the town’s John Brown and Bleeding Kansas related

history. Visitors from Alaska to the Florida Keys come to Osawatomie to

visit the town’s John Brown related sites. Several Descendents of John

Brown visited the museum this year, including Aaron Brown, the great

grandson times 5 of John Brown. The most common remark is amazement that

we have so many historic sites that have been preserved so that visitors

can actually see and walk on them, and that the town’s association with

John Brown drew them to visit Osawatomie.

Osawatomie’s history and heritage attracts tourists to Osawatomie by the

thousands every year. Tourists boost the local economy by eating in our

restaurants, shopping in our stores, buying gasoline and utilizing the

services that our businesses offer. In addition, they spread word of mouth

advertising for the community internationally and nationally, and work to

attract new citizens to the community. Osawatomie’s historic sites and

the town’s association with John Brown and Bleeding Kansas attracted

thousands of visitors to Osawatomie in 2010, and will continue to do so in

2011.

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