Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum



The Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum is based on an 1874 stockade built to protect residents of
the time. Courtesy: Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum

The Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum is a collection of “anything and everything” — from woolly mammoth bones and human hair wreaths to buffalo heads and saddles from the Civil War to the present.



The museum — and the home of the hatchet-wielding temperance leader Carry Nation — is open 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. every day from November to May and 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday from June to October. The museum is closed on major holidays.

A Carry Nation impersonator holds a hatchet,
the preferred tool the temperance leader used
to smash saloons. Courtesy: Medicine Lodge
Stockade Museum.

The Stockade Museum opened in 1961 and is based on a stockade built in 1874 in Medicine Lodge, which is the county seat of Barber County. The stockade is not an exact replica of the original but was constructed the same way. The museum is soliciting contributions for new logs on is website, www.medicinelodgestockade.org.  

The museum grounds feature a two-story log cabin built in the 1870s and an old jail cell that had been in the basement of the original courthouse.

The home of Carry Nation is included with admission, which is $3 for children 7 to 14, $5 for adults and $4 for people 55 and older. Admission is free for children younger than 7.

The home is the original site of where Nation — famous for smashing saloons —began her crusade. The home includes many of her furnishings.

“We do have some bottles that she missed,” joked Belinda Kimball of the museum.