Education Center

"Education is the the key to unlock the golden door to freedom." George Washington Carver, homesteader and scientist.

 
Education Center at Homestead National Monument of America
Education Center at Homestead National Monument of America
Park Photo
 

Soon after becoming established a homesteader's physical act of sowing seeds grew into an intellectual need to sow the seeds of knowledge. Families worked together as a community to meet the social and educational needs of the children.

Homestead National Monument of America uses the Education Building to provide modern Americans the opportunity to meet their quest for further knowledge about homesteading through Hands-on arts and crafts demonstrations, real life science experiences, and distance learning. Talk to the Ranger in the Education Building [or at the Heritage Center] about these opportunities.

While at the Education Center view the museum displays of tools and farm machinery, and begin your hike onto the Tallgrass Prairie. Nearby is the one room Freeman School house.

 
Interpretive Panel at Education Center
Interpretive Panel at Education Center
Created by Roberta Wendel

Did You Know?

Prairie

While plowing 1 acre of ground, the homesteader walked 10 miles.  So to plow the required 10 acres for his homestead, the homesteader had to walk a minimum of 100 miles.
  -- Homestead National Monument of America