Garrison School Museum(Exhibit rooms A-E on first floor level) Download Self-Guided Tour Exhibit Room A: Pioneer Black Families of Liberty, Civil war era artifacts, Story Boards on Excelsior Springs and its 7 Black Bath houses and owners from the 1880s-1930s, Missouri City students and Educators, Liberty churches, The Gladstone Community of White Oak, Famous Civil War Era Pioneers to the present day of Liberty, Handmade Plantation Chairs from the Withers Farm, photos of early community leaders and Masons of Liberty among other artifacts.. Exhibit Room B: Handmade Quilts Room Featuring (7) patterns. Exhibit Room C: Black Baseball Room featuring the Kansas City Monarchs (both men and women players), Numerous Black Baseball Teams and Players: Black All Stars in Cuba, Lincoln Giants, PillsburyCrawfords among others; Women Players: Toni Stone, Connie Morgan,Mamie "Peanut Johnson; Women Team Owners: Effa brooks Manley owner of the Brooklyn Eagles, Dr. Hilda Bolden Shorter owner of the Philadelphia Stars; Books, and numerous baseball artifacts and posters on loan from one of the Kansas City Negro League Baseball Museum founders and author Larry Lester. Exhibit Room D: Featuring African American Veterans of Clay County from the Civil War through the Gulf Wars (both men and women) Exhibit Room E: Featuring Liberty School District high School student Research Projects for the Garrison Advanced Student Educational Mentoring Program (ASEM). The Lion and Unicorn Reading literacy Program (LURP) for elementary youth has included over 4,000 youth from the Liberty and Kansas City School Districts during the past 10 years. Clay. County African American Art Gallery: (Lower Level of Garrison) featuring African American Art, African Art, Artists,historical posters, and artifacts. |
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