Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area is raising funds through the Douglas County Community Foundation to create a traveling exhibit on the Kansas-Missouri Border War. The exhibit will be offered free of charge to museums and schools throughout the heritage area, addressing a persistent problem for small museums: limited budgets that make it hard to refresh exhibits and, in turn, hard to attract new and repeat visitors and school field trips.
The fundraiser is open through August 31, 2026. Learn more and donate at the link below.
Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) builds awareness of struggles for freedom in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Established by Congress in 2006, FFNHA covers a unique physical and cultural landscape across 41 counties and 31,000 square miles. It promotes three diverse, interwoven, and nationally significant stories: frontier settlement, the Missouri-Kansas Border War and Civil War, and enduring civil rights disputes. FFNHA inspires respect for multiple perspectives and empowers area residents to preserve and share these stories, achieving its goals through interpretation, preservation, conservation, and education for all residents and visitors. It is one of 62 federally recognized national heritage areas across the United States.