The Alexander Majors House is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 1-4 p.m. for public tours. Come visit us!
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2013 Summer Camp
ONLINE REGISTRATION is now available for Camp Wornall/Majors!
Each year our interactive and hands-on summer camps are energized by new programs, crafts, and presenters while still maintaining kids’ favorites.
Our goal is to inspire and cultivate a life-long love of history by immersing children in activities, crafts, and learning experiences that showcase life in the 1850s and 1860s: sheep shearing, candle dipping, music and dancing, blacksmithing, pioneer games, storytelling, period dress, civil war history, and much more including unique presentations from local educators, reenactors, artists, and artisans.
Camp Wornall/Majors is for children who have completed Kindergarten through Age 12.
Camps take place at The Alexander Majors House Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and at The John Wornall House on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Camp Weeks
June 10-14
July 15-19
July 29-August 2
August 12-16
Camp Cost
$200 per camp week
$200 per camp week
NEW IN 2013: Extended day care (8-9 a.m. and 4-5 p.m.) is available for an additional fee.
To register and pay online go to www.wornallhouse.org.
For more details, email Coordinator@WornallHouse.org.
ADDRESS
8201 State Line Road
Kansas City, MO. 64114
70 YEARS OF FRONTIER HISTORY
Welcome to the official web site of Alexander Majors. He ran one of the country’s largest freighting companies from Kansas City, created the Pony Express, and gave “Buffalo Bill” Cody his first job. Perhaps no one did more to help shape the future of the American West and the commercial destiny of Kansas City than Alexander Majors.
In the westward expansion of the 1850s, his firm’s freighting operations were instrumental in bringing supplies to settlements from the Dakotas to Arizona. The prominence of Majors’ company attracted governmental and private shippers to Westport Landing, giving Kansas City a head start towards economic success.
Constructed in 1856, Majors’ 3,400 square foot ante-bellum home in Kansas City is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Restored in 1984, the home features original hardwood floors and millwork, as well as furnishings of the era. Also on the site are blacksmithing demonstrations, gardens, and displays of tools, wagons and carriages from the mid-1800s.
Please call 816-444-1858 for more information.
