Ward Meade Park

Drugstore at Prairie Town where we ate lunch.

Jade attending school.

Mom and Jade in front of the mansion.

A picture Jade took of me.

Jade getting her just desserts.

Jade's new victorian purse.

Jade in front of cabin.

I crack everyone up.
Jade in a Senior Photo phose.
Jade on the porch of the mansion.

Phosphate anyone?
Old Prairie town.
Fountain in front of the mansion.

Mom, Jade and I recently visited the Old Prairie Town at Ward Meade Park in Topeka. The area began as a family farm on the Oregon Trail in 1854 (the family charged 75 cents to ferry wagons across the Kansas River and became very wealthy). The Paek includes the Ward-Meade Victorian Mansion, the original log home, turn of the century town including drug store, train station, stable, doctor office, one room school house , church and a 2.5 acre botanical garden. We took a tour of the mansion and several of the buildings with a retired professor as our guide. We also had old fashioned sodas and ice cream at the drug store.

The park is a popular place to take Senior Pictures. To read more about Ward Meade Park, visit http://www.washburn.edu/cas/art/cyoho/archive/AroundTopeka/ward-meade/